Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud is quite easy. There are several free and open source packages available for Installing CLI on Server. Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud has several advantages as described below.
Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud as SaaS
Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud as SaaS has several advantages. First, actually the whole setup becomes Operating System Independent and most importantly device independent. With JavaScript function, you can actually show a live working demo and create an interactive command line tool even within your posts or webpages. The best possible example is from GitHub, which looks like classic Mac OS X iTerm :
You can, in fact check it out yourself by visiting this webpage :
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1 | http://try.github.com/levels/1/challenges/1 |
Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud as SaaS : What is the needed Cloud Host ?
First, there are various types of online Command Line Interfaces usually targeted to serve one purpose. For example, the above example in screenshot is fully controlled by GitHub and is for Git. There are PHP, Ruby, Phython applications are available as well as simple Javascript, Ajax, HTML based Online Command Line Interface packages. For example, this is minimal setup :
1 | http://cb.vu/ |
For this kind of setup, you can follow our previous guide for using Rackspace Cloud Files, DropBox or Heroku Cloud as the hosting platform as most simply are made up of js and HTML. Practically no guide is required, just download and drop the files, from such repository like :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinecmdline/
You can actually run it on your computer / localhost as well.
Using pure Javascript based codes and using Rackspace Cloud Files, DropBox or Heroku Cloud as the hosting platform for Installing Online Command Line Interface on Cloud as SaaS has several advantages as, for the starters they will not create any security loophole on the server itself.
