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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Introduction

Stephen Garner
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Stephen Garner
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Posted by Stephen Garner
Stephen Garner
Courses Plus Student 11,241 Points

what about Putty?

It doesn't really matter, in my opinion, how you connect to your remote server. If you have a server on Amazon EC2, ubuntu or Linux AMI, then it doesn't really matter how you are connecting to that server. I connect to my instance all the time using Putty with no problems.

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Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
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Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
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I think the video was more focused on local developing environments. I use Putty to control my Ubuntu VPS, and was pretty much how I learned to use the command line. But, it's not as convenient as a local environment, as I'll always need to push the project onto the remote server every time rather than just running locally.

Stephen Garner
Stephen Garner
Courses Plus Student 11,241 Points
Stephen Garner
Stephen Garner
Courses Plus Student 11,241 Points

can't you just copy project files/folder via filezilla?

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
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Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
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Yep, that's exactly what I do, and that would be the extra step. You could instead push the project onto your VPS with a git setup too.