The -R flag asks the remote server to listen on port 443 and forward connections back to localhost:8443, exposing the local service through the remote machine. ExitOnForwardFailure makes ssh abort instead of silently running without the tunnel, and ServerAliveInterval keeps the connection from idling out. This is the classic no-dependency public hosting pattern.
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