As previouly stated by others, your raspberry pi 5 would likely be the best option. Now, instead of hosting a vscode instance on your local network, why not just SSH into the pi? SSH would only give you access to the pi's terminal/shell, but it appears that's all you need as per your topic name.

I do want to respond to the hosting a VS Code instance.

1) If you host it privately without port forwarding or tools like tailscale, you don't need a domain. For example, I host a media server through JellyFin, but only have it running over my local network, so no one including my self can access it outside of my wifi's range. This does restrict usage to only your home, but tools like TailScale are encrypted vpns which can forward the instance on the pi to you wherever you have an internet connection.

2) Security shouldn't be a major issue because, again, the instance is only available to devices connected to your local network.

Hope this helps!

TechNerd64 wrote:

As previouly stated by others, your raspberry pi 5 would likely be the best option. Now, instead of hosting a vscode instance on your local network, why not just SSH into the pi? SSH would only give you access to the pi's terminal/shell, but it appears that's all you need as per your topic name.

I do want to respond to the hosting a VS Code instance.

1) If you host it privately without port forwarding or tools like tailscale, you don't need a domain. For example, I host a media server through JellyFin, but only have it running over my local network, so no one including my self can access it outside of my wifi's range. This does restrict usage to only your home, but tools like TailScale are encrypted vpns which can forward the instance on the pi to you wherever you have an internet connection.

2) Security shouldn't be a major issue because, again, the instance is only available to devices connected to your local network.

Hope this helps!

Yeah I guess it would be. Thanks for the info!

TechNerd64 wrote:

As previouly stated by others, your raspberry pi 5 would likely be the best option. Now, instead of hosting a vscode instance on your local network, why not just SSH into the pi? SSH would only give you access to the pi's terminal/shell, but it appears that's all you need as per your topic name.

I do want to respond to the hosting a VS Code instance.

1) If you host it privately without port forwarding or tools like tailscale, you don't need a domain. For example, I host a media server through JellyFin, but only have it running over my local network, so no one including my self can access it outside of my wifi's range. This does restrict usage to only your home, but tools like TailScale are encrypted vpns which can forward the instance on the pi to you wherever you have an internet connection.

2) Security shouldn't be a major issue because, again, the instance is only available to devices connected to your local network.

Hope this helps!

Exactly.

If you wanted somewhere to code and access terminal in the browser you can install code-server, or you could just SSH into the Pi if you have another computer that supports that. The terminal is going to be so much more responsive than any of these websites, and you have the freedom to basically do whatever you want with it.