There a things which are done better with the UNIX secure shell environment. Thus, I would dream of having a secure shell (SSH) access to my blog’s web hosting. Things like creating a schedule for backing up my blog files, changing file permissions and the like. Secure Shell though requires a dedicated IP. I haven’t known yet of a setup for a secure shell with shared IP. I think this would be more difficult implementation without having some security complications.

Mostly secure shell connections are done with a stand alone client file directly connecting to the SSH server. Lately, I have seen some web browser based software Dassh secure shell access which acts like a gateway between a clients browser and the SSH server. The irony is that one need to install a Dassh gateway server on a Unix like OS for client browsers to access prior to connecting to the real SSH server. Anyway that’s how a web browser based secure shell works.