At a glance, the screenshot on the main page seems indistinguishable from Visual Studio Code with the remote-ssh plugin, which is my daily driver and works fantastic.
MoonHome: Remote Development Environment
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#42Hey guys, there are these things called “workstations.” Have heard of them?
Having a personal workstation in university (kept it at home and had a VPN set up to connect to my LAN) was probably one of the best choices I made. I could carry a cheap disposable laptop that served as a web browser and dumb terminal and the powerful machine was just a SSH connection away.
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#43It's a well-designed site, but as others have noted, there aren't enough details about how it works, how data is handled, and its security for this to be something I would ever even think about giving money to.
I don't have a problem trying to undercut Codespaces by selling a hosted preset cloud-environment offering, even if it is just built atop Hetzner, but I do have a problem with the lack of clarity about what it is and how it works.
There is a huge niche/hobby that is there are tons of VPS resellers and smaller hosts who just throw up a rack or two in a data center and then sell cheap VPS boxes, but the thing is, when you get something from a lowendbox type of place or an upstart VPS provider, you usually understand that the company might not be around forever, that support is spotty, and that you're on your own. When you target something as a hosted remote dev environment, for me, that requires a lot more trust (whether it should or shouldn't) because it's my dev environment.
Still, it's a nice idea and I'm sure we'll see more of these offerings pop up over time.
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#45I've been doing a lot of this lately. I got the cheapest Macbook Air and SSH into my machine at the office. Tmux attach and go! Lag is never an issue for me. I could get used to this.
Check out Mosh, it’s an upgrade over ssh if you are doing remote development
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#46At a glance, the screenshot on the main page seems indistinguishable from Visual Studio Code with the remote-ssh plugin, which is my daily driver and works fantastic.
Interesting that more and more people seem to be using remote dev environments. Do you have any guides on building a good setup? I get the VS Code + ssh plugin part but how do you manage urls / domains and keeping things private?
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#47> We do not have access to your data
Pretty sure that this isn't true.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The risk of a one-man operation in this case is pretty clear. If the one dude running this gets hit by a bus, your dev environment vanishes and is useless, all data lost. If you instead use LightSail, it's clearly better. You'd need quite a few Amazon employees to be on the same bus before a small accident would result in LightSail vanishing and becoming useless. With both this, and hand-rolled stuff on LightSail, if…
Fair. But would you rather know it's a one man operation and avoid it, or not know, thinking there is a team, and then get stung in the manner you're suggesting?
At least owner conveyed us what is the case and we can give him the feedback that this is my concern and ask him if he can resolve this.
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#49There is an open source implementation of this you can just spin up in docker.
https://github.com/cdr/code-server
I've been using it for a couple of years now. It's been amazing for me. Run a server at home and I can just edit stuff on the fly via browser from where ever I am.
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#50I've been doing a lot of this lately. I got the cheapest Macbook Air and SSH into my machine at the office. Tmux attach and go! Lag is never an issue for me. I could get used to this.
"Cheapest Macbook air" is still upwards of $1000 and more than capable of running serious workloads. This kind of remote development perfectly suits my $135 chromebook though.