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Re:Showoff by jz on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:18PM (#2467197)
I work remotely 100% of the time (and not always in the same location). The use case for me is to quickly show a feature to coworkers without having to commit/push to a remote server. Especially if the feature needs immediate feedback and is not completely baked/finished.
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Re:Showoff by lukeschlather on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:35PM (#2467550)
You can still just use an SSH tunnel on your VPS... no committing/pushing required.
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Re:Showoff by 182446 on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @06:13PM (#2468609)
Can you explain how? I am a newbie to web development. I have been making sites locally on my machine and using heroku to deploy online. I am thinking of getting VPS hosting.
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Re:Showoff by dedward on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @06:54PM (#2468734)
In the simplest case, something like:

ssh -R8000:127.0.0.1:80 my.vps.com

This will forward all connections to http://my.vps.com:8000/ to port 80 on your local machine.

Adjust ports as necessary.

Then you also have the VPS where you can actually host a copy of your app - but that's off-topic.

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