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The sysadmin of Troubleshooters. Com's web host complemented me on developing and debugging my CGI on a Linux box before FTPing it to the live site. He clearly didn't have a lot of respect for people doing that. Developing on the replica is 2-10 times faster than trying to develop even over telnet. On your private machine you can take diagnostic actions, like chmod'ing something 777, that you wouldn't dare do on your production or ISP server.