Having started my computing career doing BASIC on a teletype in 1973, I am a confirmed Command Line kind of guy. Not having command line access is a bit like being in a car that's stuck in third gear -- you do eventually get where you want to go, but the trip is not enjoyable.

I am in the process of moving a client from Windows NT to Linux (here on pair networks) and I am a happy guy. Instead of the edit/ftp/test cycle I now have the shorter edit/test cycle -- and I can compile first to make sure I don't have any warnings or errors.

In other words, price doesn't rule when I look at a web hosting organization. If there's no shell access, I'm not interested.

--t. alex

"Mud, mud, glorious mud. Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!" --Michael Flanders and Donald Swann