Lift Off creates a secure connection between your Mac and the VirtualHostX Cloud then gives you a unique URL that you can pass around to your boss, client, or friend to view your site.
Since your virtual host is being served live off of your Mac, there's no uploading files or waiting. Changes you make locally appear automatically for your users.
For the curious geeks in the audience, Lift Off establishes a reverse SSH tunnel from our proxy servers to the local Apache server on your Mac. We then assign you a random http://vhx.me short URL that dynamically routes your users through our servers back to your Mac.
There's no reason a smart geek like you couldn't setup this sort of thing on your own, but we hope you'll like that we've already done the hard work to make it one-click simple :-)
VirtualHostX takes all the pain out of running multiple websites on your Mac. My only wish is that I had started using it sooner.
Brian Warren, Senior Designer/Developer, Happy Cog Studios
