@Randomaze, yes, you can run the node on a remote vps and have the coins sitting on the wallet on your local machine.  i set this up last night, before i noticed a new wallet.  I was in the process of re-setting it up before going to work.  it should be all sync'd when i get home later.  You specifiy the IP of your vps when you create the new masternode on your local wallet, then copy the getinfo details into the conf file on the vps.  that's basically it in a nutshell.  I can post some of the steps i took to go about it later on.