Now we are going to take Strapi backend that we have been building in [Making Websites With Next.js And Strapi](https://watch-learn.com/series/making-websites-nextjs-and-strapi) series, and we are going to publish it on a shared hosting. As you will see, depending on your hosting this may not be the most viable solution. But if nothing else it will be fun to try, and learn something new.

Also I'm going to show you how to redirect port 8080 of your server so that the visitors to your website don't have to input a port to access your website.

In this episode we are going to deploy Strapi backend from Next.js and Strapi series to the shared hosting.

Deploy Node.js Apps To Shared Hosting

If you are any kind of developer that works on the internet you would need to transfer your local files to the remote server. Of course you probably already know about FTP, and that is one way you can transfer files. But that is not a secure way.

If you want to transfer your files securely to the remote server you have a couple of options, you could use SSH and SCP to do that via the command line. If you like graphical interfaces you can use any of the hundreds file transfer programs and just use SFTP option provided with most of them.

And lastly I'm going to show you how to push changes to your project using Git FTP tool, so that you can speed up your developer workflow.

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In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can transfer your files SECURELY over the internet. And also a great tool called Git FTP