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

Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by atmosx on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:22PM (#9278130)

FTP? People still use FTP??? That's a protocol from another era, was designed to work in a way that's not compliant with today's best practices. The only FTP server I have runs on a Raspberry Pi file-server I have at home. There's no firewall in that little gem running.

As for tools, well vim is my default editor so:

vim (really lots of plugins, themes, extension support, personal .rc, etc.) + tmux (tmuxinator for projects) + ssh (heavy user, I use sockets to keep the connection up, use keys-only access, fine-tune the algorithms I use, etc.).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by krapp on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:33PM (#9278209)

>FTP? People still use FTP???

Of course.. people never stopped. Anyone using Wordpress, for instance, will almost certainly require developers to use FTP. For most shared hosts, FTP is the default (if not only) available method for getting files on and off of the server (and yes, people still use shared hosting as well.) I would even venture to guess that "Save in Notepad, FTP to live server and F5 to see if it worked" is still the most common web development workflow in existence.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers? by filsmick on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:08AM (#9284679)

I meant SFTP - I never use FTP

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