| check DreamHosts forums.
They have had so much downtime - at least that was our experience... It was far from worth keeping...
Uptime to us is critical - even though it might cost a little more.
View their forums - OUCH they ahve gotten beaten up pretty hard over the last year about reliability
On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Tim Allen wrote: I’ve recently switched to Dreamhost, absolutely love it, and they provide SSH/SFTP/SCP/Telnet shell access at very reasonable prices. Regards, -Tim > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:32:51 -0400 (EDT)
> From: schwepes@netaxs.com
> Subject: [PLUG] ISP's
>
> Netaxs is ending its telnet service and as I find telnet very
> useful in reading my mail at various job sites and for using
> with a dial up system dependent upon flakeky landlines, I want
> to know if anyone provides similar services.
> This is really the wrong time to suggest that I upgrade to FIOS,
> cmcast or RCN.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but for the future, Speakeasy
still provides shell accounts if you ask for one.
I second the "find a free shell account" elsewhere answer.
Other alternatives:
* Buy a cheap VPS (virtual private server) from a hosting company that
provides shell/root access, and use that. (There are PLUG folks who work
for such a company, but I forget the name right now.)
* Explore the HP "Test Drive" service, though I'm not sure that'll
really work for you: http://www.testdrive.hp.com/os/ and /faq/
Other suggestions:
* Look into Portable Putty on a USB key for your portable SSH needs.
(SecureCRT, which is commercial, also provides a method to be portable,
though it's a bit clunky.) As others have mentioned Telnet is getting
rare, thankfully.
* Look into using 'screen' on the remote end, if you have flaky
connections. Once you set up it, which is pretty easy, you can
re-connect right where you let off when you get dropped due to route
flap, noisy phone line, etc.
HTH,
JP
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