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Currently working on a personal blog post about self taught programming and remembered how I used to ship stuff. Was just a server on dreamhost that also had the domain I purchased. Just used FileZilla to drop html css and js files into the right folder, and that was it. 

No version control, no GitHub, no CI/CD. Just overwriting files to a cloud. Sounds awful now, but also kind of nostalgic. The lesson: just ship it, don’t worry about the how.

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Deployments via FTP were the best. Let’s bring them back

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Totally agree!! I’ve done that quite a bit with my Pi and hosting apps on VPS’ are coming back in style. My text editor Zed recently just added an SSH feature where you can go into a server and edit the code base there which is nice too.

I used to ship the same way!

Also was quite fond of using SFTP on SublimeText to work directly on the remote server so I could share updates with my colleagues in real time - they thought I was a wizard.

People are spoiled with their automatic hosting and Ci/CD setups nowadays and honestly should just set up a simple web server themselves to learn how it works.

I remember the days. 

FTP files to a temp directory on a server
Terminal services in
Copy current files into a different temp folder
Move new ones to overwrite the old 
Test it ( visual inspection)

At some point and I can’t remember when, we got the ability to copy files into a Remote Desktop and didn’t always need to ftp 

Good times.