Adapter best practice

[btripple]

Is there a use case for having more than one adapter?  I can see the need for two if you have one website using Akamai and another site using sftp?  But can one presume most orgs would only require one adapter? Is there another scenario that I might be missing?

The whole notion of adapters is somewhat confusing (particularly the name), why not select the hosting location when you create the environment? 

[jantzen_b · Accepted solution]

Another use case might be to have you your staging/dev environment hosted locally and your production environment hosted on Akamai.