Why remote MCP servers are so useful - OAuth Tutorial

- If you're building an MCP server for yourself, you can host it locally on your computer and boot it up anytime you need to use it. But that's cumbersome if you're working in a team or you want to publish an MCP server that other people outside of your organization or even in your organization need to use. In those circumstances, it makes more sense to create a remote MCP server. And there are multiple benefits to this. The first one is, remote MCP servers are easy to install for any user. All they have to do is point at the right URI and the MCP server will just work in their application. Secondly, you can update the remote MCP server at any time with new features or bug fixes or anything else, and those features will automatically manifest for the end user. As long as they're pointing out that remote MCP server, they don't have to run the update themselves, they don't have to run any local software to get it to work. It's just an external service they plug into. There are two basic…