Re: Not OFFLIST Re: TECH: info on ftp

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> wrote:

> Realistically, SSH and SFTP aren't options if you've a shared hosting
> account, which is what the vast
> majority of people would have, and anybody with the savvy to set up a
> dedicated or colocated machine would also know enough to set up SSH
> themselves
> anyway.
>
FWIW: For my personal use, I have a shared hosting account w/ DreamHost. I
get full SSH etc access; I just don't have root, so I have to install stuff
within my own directory if I want to add software, and ask them to do some
things for me (like edit Apache config that can't be done in an .htaccess
file). It's reasonably cheap, though.

DH however is a provider that caters to Ruby on Rails users - for whom SSH
is not optional. For users where your site is just a bunch of HTML files
etc, not actual code, plain (S)FTP(S) is probably good enough.

Personally I'd never use it 'cause it'd feel way to restrictive, but *shrug*

- Sai