From 5b5561b5f0df232870859fde158c69d604e94098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ondrej Svejdar Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 15:28:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abb270d --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Hosts Switcher +This small tray icon utility takes care about your host files, so developer can easily switch between QA, production and local environment. + +Web developers in big companies (such as myself) often struggles with different environments - local, QA, production, performance test environment, etc. To make things more difficult, we're usually taking care about multiple web sites. This simple tool helps you out to change hosts quickly - by overwriting your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file (which is serving as first level dns proxy) by set of predefined hosts. + +Please note web browsers have dns cache on their own so once you change hosts; you have to either close and reopen your browser once you do the change or use some plugin - such as DNS flusher in Mozilla. + +![Hosts Switcher Screenshot](/hosts-switcher.png)