I deploy my apps with SFTP command line .
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This is how I deployed an app less than 5 years ago (healthcare).
It's sad
I know a place where they still do this. They've got an 8-digit user count, 7 digit monthly profits, all running on one server that costs something like $20 a month. They've downsized a few years ago to single-digit employee number and just sit there and collect profits. And this is why I'm now working for a company that casually dropped a few grand for a glorified CPU usage meter and a few grand on top of that for deployment tool that does the same thing that the old guy at a former place was doing with his trusty FTP client.
This is how I deploy my personal website today. The holster doesn't give ash access.
Oh please, you didn’t even have to turn the cassette or floppy disc over. You and your luxuries.
A lot are still doing that and haven't moved up
(Please at least use SFTP!)
FTP Explorer all the way! Preferred that to filezilla... I mean it didn't support sftp but I liked it.
You will pry ftp from my cold dead hands.
Can you use sftp instead? Pwease? 🥺
Who can afford the performance hit?
My production server running Win XP Home has to have the firewall off just to make all the super secret company internal networks work. SFTP would cripple us!
/s, except about the performance hit being stupidly unacceptable in 2024.
There's still a few sites I deploy changes to using ssh+rsync. ...which is made considerably easier by the fact that it's just a static website generated with Jekyll.
Ah yes, war files
Don't forget ear files. Oh, and don't forget the abomination that is the executable war file when you're using Spring Boot but your company hasn't fully embraced it yet.
FTP and rsync my beloved
I am currently updating a minecraft server soooooo
if your hosting provider 1) is not yourself and 2) requires you to use anything like filezilla, get a new hosting provider
Why?
Unless you're using Linode or something other general purpose VPS which you have installed a Minecraft server onto, having to use anything other than a WebUI to exchange files with the server really strikes me as sketchy. A dedicated can't-run-anything-else Minecraft hosting provider even giving random users SSH access is sketchy enough but requiring you to use it to update the game... that level of not having an IT guy is just a security nightmare waiting to happen.
Guessing by your comment that you've actually rented a general purpose Linux VPS and not gotten suckered into Honest Pete's Discount CreeperHost. In that case, carry on.
Tbf I think BisectHost now lets me just upload normally, but I'm so used to using Filezilla I'm doing so out of habit.
That's fair actually. I was more worried about Minecraft hosts that allow you to upload your own game executable (which I sincerely hope don't exist)
The last time I've rented a Minecraft server was probably over 10 years ago, and as far as I can tell, at the time having to upload stuff through ftp was normal.
Although reading this thread has also taught me that I know nothing about how deployment works and I need to catch up on that.
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