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Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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"Local" server means a server that's running on the local system. This usually refers to something like a database server that runs on the same server as the web server.
"Remote" server means a server that's running on another system. For example, when a database server lives on a different server than the web server, the database server is a "remote" server to the web server. For best security, the "remote" server typically exists behind a firewall, and sometimes on another network - but "remote" servers can exist on the same subnet too.
So that's how I was using the term "remote server." It's a "remote server" because the SSH file server isn't running on my Linux desktop, but a Raspberry Pi elsewhere on my network.
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