[GTALUG] Web hosting companies providing Linux shell accounts?

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

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From: "Karen Lewellen via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
To: <talk at gtalug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 8:56 PM
Subject: [GTALUG] Web hosting companies providing Linux shell accounts?


> Hi All,
> The organization for whom I work presently has a shared hosting 
> account with dreamhost.  Recently though they made a change that 
> prevents me from accessing my work shell account with the combination 
> of adaptive technology tools I must use.
> so, I am seeking a new hosting that includes shell accounts with their 
> offerings,  Dreamhost used Ubuntu, but I have done this with freebsd 
> as well.
> Ideas of where to start?
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
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Hi Karen,

Not sure what you're looking for in technical facilities, but here are 
my recommendations.

I use two (2) hosting services, one for my personal / business hosting, 
and the other for a specific website hosting project, that has been 
dormant for some time:

www.siteground.com

I use SG for POP3 & SMTP email hosting (personal and business), hosting 
a few web pages http://aspetrie.net/ and hosting some documents for 
secure FTP access by other people.

I find SG to be an excellent company. Rock-solid reliable 
infrastructure. It just works (has for me). Exceptionally knowledgeable 
and responsive technical support. Not the least expensive hosting 
service, but worth every dollar for hassle-free and worry-free hosting.

SG are focused more on clients using mainstream tools for website 
building and operation (e.g. WordPress). Not sure about shell accounts. 
It's something I have had in the back of my mind to ask SG about ...

www.elastichosts.com

I chose EH for running my own choice of operating systems on a hosted 
virtual server setup. Running  two operating systems: debian Linux and 
DragpnFlyBSD. Both under QEMU / KVM virtualization.

Did a bunch of prelimary work to get both these OSs up and running 
successfully on EH VPSs in shell text-conaole mode. Due to other 
priorities, haven't worked on this EH setup fior many months. But I keep 
paying the bill becaue I don't want to lose all the work already done.

Like SG, EH is not the least expensive, but worth every dollar.

The few times I've checked my EH virtual servers, everythig started up 
just fine.

I get occasional notificaiton emails from EH about planned service 
maintenance / upgrades. Also advisories regarding fixes I should install 
for critical security patches.

As with SG above, the EH infrastructure seems rock-solid and the 
technical support I experienced was excellent, too.

For sure you can use EH to run Linux with remote shell access. EH also 
have the VNC stuff for when your Linux is borked and you still need to 
be able to mess around with some terminal access to the borked-Linux 
virtual machine.

HTH.

Steve