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

Pros to local:

• works even if the network goes down
• you know every tool on the machine

Cons to local:

• have to synchronize everything to the deployment server
• without version control you can clobber others' work

Pros to central:

• everyone has identical tools
• always working on "real" content

Cons to central:

• can't work if network is down
• your "favorite" tool(s) may be missing

I'm sure there are more, but these come to mind right-off.