Forget the word cloud. The cloud exists on servers. What you are talking about is servers. I mean build a nice beefy 2 cpu supermicro rackmountable 2-4u server with a shitton of RAM and fast disks and a duplicate for HA which is then backed up properly. It is a dev and a sysadmins playground paradise. I do prefer to keep prod and dev on separate physical machines though for an added layer of separation.
One more thing. People seem to think colocation isn't worth it anymore... well let me tell you, they are very often wrong! Colo is a great solution depending on the problem. You get the closeness to the core backbone nodes, the security of a DC, and these days often at very competitive prices. You can get security cages, full racks or you can half racks and sometimes the DC has smaller etc to keep the cost down as well.
If thats not an option, you can do dedicated servers in a DC. The difference being in a colo the hardware is yours, in a dedicated setup the hardware is part of an offering by the provider. I have done this at many places as a stopgap until the colo server arrives (rackspace for example).
I would really suggest for real dev where you are compiling often and doing many things that stress systems, stay away from VPS's. It's not nice to other users and you don't get the perf you need/want anyway.
This kind of stuff is what makes me excited about 32core amd cpu's on the way. This time I wont have to do a quad cpu system to get 64 cores, just 2!
One more thing. People seem to think colocation isn't worth it anymore... well let me tell you, they are very often wrong! Colo is a great solution depending on the problem. You get the closeness to the core backbone nodes, the security of a DC, and these days often at very competitive prices. You can get security cages, full racks or you can half racks and sometimes the DC has smaller etc to keep the cost down as well.
If thats not an option, you can do dedicated servers in a DC. The difference being in a colo the hardware is yours, in a dedicated setup the hardware is part of an offering by the provider. I have done this at many places as a stopgap until the colo server arrives (rackspace for example).
I would really suggest for real dev where you are compiling often and doing many things that stress systems, stay away from VPS's. It's not nice to other users and you don't get the perf you need/want anyway.
This kind of stuff is what makes me excited about 32core amd cpu's on the way. This time I wont have to do a quad cpu system to get 64 cores, just 2!
https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/EPYC7000/H11DSi...