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Ask HN: Development machine in a cloud?
It came to me that it could be quite useful. Instead of having powerful PC, just using some kind of Remote Desktop on rented instance in a cloud. It would be great for people having slow computers or travelling. Of course there could be some annoying network lag, but I think in many cases such setup would be beneficial. Somehow I haven't heard of people working like that. Anyone tried it? Do you have some advice on it? Are there any useful tools for that (like for example probably there is something better than default OS's Remote Desktops)? Do you recommend any cloud providers for that?
- jhwhite 12y agoYou mean something like https://c9.io/ https://c9.io/ or https://www.nitrous.io/ https://www.nitrous.io/
- ancymon 12y agoNo, those seem to be IDEs in browsers. I'd like to have complete environment.
- JamesMck 12y agosure, makes sense and also that's the whole premise behind https://koding.com/ https://koding.com/, http://codebox.com http://codebox.com, http://codio.com http://codio.com, etc. in addition to the others mentioned above. This market segment is growing at a nice pace looking at the number of new entrants.