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

Developing and 'testing' on the local machine is Ok but quality testing should be performed on a system the reflects the target environment, i.e. without all of the development tools etc installed.

This will help avoid the 'well it works on my machine' situations.