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