Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers?

Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by tomkinstinch on Friday March 27, 2015 @09:48AM (#9276203)

On projects too small to have a workflow for automated deployment (let's be real: not everything is worth the overhead of setting up all of those tools), I've found the duo of Sublime and ExpanDrive[1] works well. The latter mounts a server that is accessible via SSH as a local drive (it's essentially a nice GUI for something like sshfs).

Otherwise, some combination of tmux and vim/nano/emacs.

1. http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by mmccaff on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:40AM (#9276528)

I agree, being able to use your favorite local IDE to load and edit remote files can be very convenient.

On OSX, I use Panic Transmit's "Mount as Disk" feature. I've also heard good things about a product called WebDrive for this use case.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by falcolas on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:23AM (#9281573)

> not everything is worth the overhead of setting up all of those tools

I have a hard time disagreeing with this, since quite a bit of my professional life involves writing such configuration files.

That said, even in the cases you describe, I at least try and set up a shell script or makefile to keep things repeatable and documented.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by filsmick on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:30AM (#9276460)

Thank you so much for showing me ExpandDrive. sshfs was slow and buggy, but this looks really nice.

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