[adamcharnock]

I’ve been trying something new for the last few months. I brought a min-spec M1 Air and I’ve been using a hetzner dedicated server as my development machine.

I run all user-interfaces locally, and use unison to keep files in sync. VSCode remote dev works well, but I’m more of a PyCharm person myself and their remove dev is just picking up. Docker just runs natively on the server.

But it has been working very well with unison. I run eternal terminal with tmux, so my terminal is always available. Local bandwidth requirements are low and I get a 6-core 64GB dev machine.

It’s actually been very pleasant. I have barely any dev tools locally (not even home brew, which I do not miss at all).

[freetime2]

Can I ask what the monthly hosting costs are?

[adamcharnock]

It’s about €30/month, but it is very much a business expense, so it comes out of my company account (I’m a freelancer)

You could probably grab a server for a bit less from their server auction.

[gedw99]

thats a really good idea. I have so many docker and docker compose things to run and the mac is just not powerful enough.

I use hetzner already too.

Do you happen to have an makefiles or scripts that set up this on your mac that you can share ?