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What does tmux have to do with anything?
by koprulusector 4y ago
What does tmux have to do with anything?
- Macha 4y agoA common deployment strategy for small scale services, especially around the 2005-2015 era, was to just copy files to your VPS, ssh in and start it up with nohup or in a screen/tmux session so it stayed running when you closed your ssh session. screen/tmux were especially helpful for stuff like irssi or minecraft servers which had a server side console you might want to return to. This was a step up for novice sysadmins/developers from "FTP to the webroot" without having to learn real deployment tools, how to write init scripts, etc. Of course it wasn't good enough for anything business critical, but I'm sure it happened there too. Also, if you then wanted to access that service from your college network, who may have gone out of their way to block gaming, a common workaround was to host it on port 443. By 2010-2015, colleges were using DPI sophisticated enough to see that "that's not http traffic" on port 80, but tended to treat 443 as "that's encrypted, must be a black box". That's how I ran mine in ~2013.