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

FWIW, I'll mention that our setup is like what Mr. Matt described. Each dev gets his own personal sandbox to mess with, with its own webserver and DB. On the verge of release, version-controlled code is snapshot/branched and moved to a staging server which is supposed to mimic the real live environment as closely as possible. Testing ensues, then the release is made to a production environment.

For my own personal (non-work-related) projects, I develop locally, then push live. One or two projects may have an intermediary testing server/environment between development and public/live.