Web developers - Is it better to do development on your local machine or on a remote host?

Question

What are the pro/cons of doing web development on your local machine rather than on a centralized development server? For those that do dev on your local machine, how do you kee

Answer 1

I've found that runing a local web server, with remote DB works best. DB replication/ synchronisation is a pain, so I'd only work with a local DB if I really had to.

Working with a local web server though removes all the annoyance and slowness of uploading pages/ code between changes.