Thanks for your reply...Yes, all system requirements are met and the message that it is ready for v4.7.
Each week I backup a copy of my entire site (2 x IPS sites) and databases and download the backups to a 4tb backup hard disk here at home. This way the backups are off site from my server provider in the US, I am in Australia, and have nothing to do with my server should anything happen to the server. This basically costs me nothing and I have done this for years with Xenforo and every now and then I would check a backup on my local PC under xampps and never a problem. This also allows me the luxury of doing and testing any changes that I may like to make free from any impacts online, a type of Test Environment and using an online sub domain as a form of Pre-Prod environment.
If I were to have a different online test environment it would cost me for another server...note just one of my sites is a 17gb backup
If I were to do as you have suggested, if anything happened to the server I would lose the backup plus not have a Test Environment due to IPS one live/one test install rules.
To give an example I would like to have a look at combining 2 of my sites together. This will take a substantial amount of playing around and changing many things to see if there are any benefits that I think I might get. This would be so much easier and quicker if I could just do it on my local PC.
Life was so much easier with Xenforo
Any suggestions on how I can overcome this problem with IPS