Hosting without shell ? Here is the solution...

Usually if you host your site somewhere, they did not give you a shell. Shell is something you can play with commands to do something, usually it's via SSH.

I think it is very useful since I need to soft link something (because I don't want any duplicate files, they will waste my hosting quota), file operation (copy, move, delete, rename), CHMOD, download easily using wget (web host has good internet connection, so it's faster to download files directly from shell rather than download the files manually and upload to your hosting account), compressed file operation (unzip, gunzip, tar, bunzip) or something silly like checking out the available hard drive space (sometimes I need this too, to ensure that they have enough space for me). Or basicly, you want to run any UNIX Commands to manage your hosting.


I know that they provide file manager from cpanel (or anything that available for you). And this file manager has most function above. They think it's enough. But wait... can you download files to your hosting account directly using file manager ? can you gunzip, tar, bunzip using your file manager ? usually file manager only provides unzip.

And if the hosting company gives you shell access, you will be charged more. I give you a solution for you to have a shell without paying a dime. And it's very easy because it's web-based. You don't need any SSH Client at all. Just run your browser and do all shell operation from there.



This small php script looks like Linux shell console and allows you to execute shell commands w/o the need of ssh access.

You can get it from GScripts.Net