Testing vs. Development

[eluser]kRON[/eluser]
[EDIT] sorry just read you don't want to develop it locally. I don't know how the Dreamweaver feat. for test and deployment server works, but if you have a test server, you could work on the test server and run PEAR, or some application, on the test server to remotely deploy to the production server.

As for the stats problem, have you thought about using google analytics to track stats?