Other people can see and work with a remote development server. If you're pair programming or having a consultant or friend help you debug something tricky, you

Other people can see and work with a remote development server. If you're pair programming or having a consultant or friend help you debug something tricky, you can set up screen sessions with just an ssh login instead of having to set up and configure another tool that the other person might not be familiar with. If you're working from home, or with a distributed team that can't all be on the same network, with a remote server you don't have to monkey with letting someone else into your network. Droplets only cost money when they're instantiated/on. At the end of the day, you nuke the server and can deploy it again in the morning if you need to.