why are less and less hosting places not offering shell access?

[QueBert]

Been out of the web thing for awhile, every place I use to host with pretty much offered shell access. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong companies to host with, but they're either not having SSH or something called "Jailed SSH" (hostpc) since I've been out the loop for a minute, what do people use to edit their web pages on the server? I use to just telnet in and pop into pico and make the quicky updates. Was faster then editing on my pc and FTP'ing. This was before proggies like Dreamweaver were out and had options to sync the site automatically. Which is a nice feature, but I'll be on the road a lot and will be doing updates from where ever I'm at.

Does anyone here host and use some sort of PHP script to edit their pages remotly? I'm kind of curious what route to go.

thanks

 

[George P Burdell]

Some hosts enable SSH for you if you just ask them (although they'll ask for a copy of any photo ID).

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I give all my reseller clients SSH access, it's jailed ssh but you can edit files and such without any issue. You just aren't given access to root folders, it's generally not an issue. PM me if you want an account to try it out with.

 

[jfall]

Granting SSH access to a shared server is usually deemed as a security risk. Most hosts these days have a control panel with a file manager you can use to edit files without having to FTP.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
Some hosts enable SSH for you if you just ask them (although they'll ask for a copy of any photo ID).

Yup, that's our policy, but we also give jailed ssh access. Basically the only difference between traditional shell access and jailed is that jailed makes it easier to "confine" your access to your account and disables compiler privalges. Running vi/pico will work just fine in a jailed environment.