Testing vs. Development

[eluser]Iverson[/eluser]
I develop a lot of websites. I typically buy the domain/hosting, and code everything under that domain. I don't, however, have a "development" environment. This ends up being a pain because the stats from cpanel are always skewed because I'M always the number one amount of hits, views, etc. I use dreamweaver CS3 which has the "remote server" and "testing server" functionality but I can't figure out how to use it. Any ideas on how to seperate the two? Fyi, I don't want to run it locally because I develop from different computers.