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by hiphopopotamus 5015 days ago
You could use something like a Linode virtual server as your dev env. I know a few people do that. Of course if you're doing web development you may have to deal with your dev server possibly being publicly facing.

Personally I mostly do Node.js and Python development, and I just set up an Ubuntu Server VM in VirtualBox and share a folder from the host OS. That way I can use the VM to run the code, but use editors etc on the host OS. I can set-up a VM in about 15 mins so it isn't even worth backing them up or transferring them between machines.