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

For a situation like that I've always done it on a development server. Since there are no recompiles. You could always get a new DB snapshot everyday and bring it down to your machine. Or just have the web server local and point the DB to the dev box.