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

Both. Do some integration and unit testing on your development server (which, ideally, should be as similar to your live server as possible, but local), then do some acceptance testing in a QA environment, which should either be the same machine as your live server, or exactly the same setup (hardware, software, etc.) and should be remote.

When it comes to the database part of the question, you could either:

• each have your own copy of the database OR
• keep data/structure in sync by running a centralised script (maybe as part of your build)