[wplug] Ftp to websites

[Michael A. Smith]

Cameron McBride wrote:

>>>Do people pay extra for hosting and a shell
>>>account just so they can use sftp? 
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>>Yes, this is the norm.
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>I don't know if this is the norm.  There are lots of providers that
>allow shell access.  I'm not going to say they are always the
>cheapest, but there are still some in the $10 or so range.
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>Bad statistics, but one example (known *not* to be the cheapest, but
>nice features):
>    http://rootr.net/hosting_standard.html
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>Cameron
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I think pair.com is $17/month. They're in Pittsburgh, I love them, and
they're pretty supportive of OSS. They provide ssh to FreeBSD and a host
(haha) of other services (PHP, MySQL, whatnot).

- My $.02