As a Linux user, as soon as you have SSH access to that strange server you can easily use gvfs to use sublime-text remotely, it's working great and is sooo simple to use..

It's probably not worth for a quick "let's change a setting in /etc/xyz" edit but it's worth it for everything else!

p.s.: i'm quit esure mac os x can do the same and in windows there is some third party app for remote ssh access/mounting.