Stands for Secure Shell, SSH is network protocol for secure connection. Protocol like ftp, telnet, rlogin are not secure; the data can be intercepted in between.

SSH is must for you if data security is of utmost importance to you

I use it currently for extreme convenience in managing my site hosted in some remote server.

All I need to connect to my Server using SSH in cygwin environment in Windows or then after it’s like me sitting in server and working on my system in bash shell. Through cygwin you can us the SSH client – openSSH

With my 256Kbps speed how much time should I take to have a software say of 10MB size ready to install?

The answer is 10 seconds. Wondering how?

In example below it downloads gallery2 in my server and unzips it

ssh username@domainname #it will prompt for password, enter password
 
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gallery/gallery-2.3-full-en.zip
 
unzip gallery-2.3-full-en.zip

Now the files are ready for you to install

Is not it easy, fast and secure?

So if you are choosing a web hosting portal for your “non-hobby” site then make sure it has SSH feature for you.

P.S: Some 2/3 years back my web hosting portal did not have SSH. Upon knowing Gurudeva told me SSH is first thing that he looks for to choose a web hosting portal. After that I changed my web hosting portal to the current one. That time I did not know the use of it, now I realize the power of SSH.

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