Hi,

I need you see what do you think about SSH hosting. Fellow hosts might be very helpful but the consumer opinion is also very important.

So. What's the point. Is it worth to provide SSH as a feature to Budget hosting plans (under $10 a month)? I'm asking you this because we used to allow SSH even to the customers who sign up for our cheapest hosting plan. But we had about 10 attempts from different customers to spam, damage a single server and etc we stoped the SSH for our budget plans.

We are able to allow SSH now in more secure environment but I'm pretty reserved about it. Do you find reasonable to add SSH to budget hosting plans and to give a local access to non business customers?

Thank you for your time
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Anyone on a "budget" plan should not be allowed ssh access, only people with larger plans and more reason to need access to a remote shell should be allowed.

I would offer an option to your budget clients that would allow them to contact you if they need something ran from the shell.

Most people disable it all together and only allow rsa key logins (much more secure) since now and days there is little to no reason to login to a shell to manage websites, all permissions can be done from ftp along with some other things :)


Hope this helps.

Typically when i buy budget accounts, I am buying them as a back-up solution or a favor for a friend. In which case ssh is used for the first hour to unextract all of the backup'ed files. Then ssh will not be used for a long time till another backup restore is needed to be done. Sure you can use web based version, but these i've found typically have problems.
I would say enable ssh for anyone on request. Most hosting client will use ftp and be completely happy. But the guy who uses ssh will typically be the guy buying 25 accounts when he is moving server locations or other circumstances.
it doesn't hurt to provide a service that is already setup.