[JonathonW]

If you're on a *nix, I'm rather fond of sshfs for this purpose: it's a FUSE filesystem that lets you mount a remote folder over SSH, and from there you can work with files using whatever local editor or tools you want to.

It's available through apt-get in Ubuntu and Homebrew on OSX (and probably other package managers, too), and should work anywhere that FUSE does. Doesn't require any special configuration on the server-side except to have SSH enabled (and not be doing anything weird that blocks SFTP, I guess).

[laumars]

I second the sshfs recommendation. Most of my remote development is using a combination of tmux (as an IDE for remote CLI tools) and sshfs (for GUI IDEs).

[cbaleanu]

sshfs or winSCP on windows are great, beats text mode for me especially when editing files on stable known hosts. I wouldn't bother using either for ephemeral instances though.

[whatnotests]

sshfs is the shit. And using a solid piece of work like sshfs vs having some one-off thing for sublime is much preferred.