@Thenomain said in Project X:
@ixokai said in Project X:
@Thenomain said in Project X:
Let me edit my phrasing, then...
Digital Oceans also gives you a Linux slice and SSH console access. I don't know how its web-services support is, tho.
Err.... where?
Are we using the word 'console' differently?
I type, in my nice local terminal shell: ssh thenomain@gameaddy.com
I get a password challenge.
I get a prompt of a console.
I type something like 'echo $0' and I get something like '-bash'.
If we're using the word differently, I don't know how you expect it to be used.
Yeah, that's not console access. That's just a ssh shell.
Console is tty1, its as if your keyboard and screen are plugged directly in.
When you fuck up your firewall and forget to open port 22, you use console access to fix your screw up.
When you want to do a dist-upgrade, you don't do that over ssh, you do it with console access.
Digital Ocean does give you console access via their website-- go into your droplet, and either upper right hand corner click Console, or under Access do Launch Console. It looks like your shell, but its different: it works even if ssh is not installed, as its direct access to... the console. And all web shells I've ever used have sucked. 
What Linode does is have a custom ssh server that runs on their systemt that directly connects to each linode's console terminal. So in an emergency, you connect to that and get into your server's console terminal. Your server will often ALSO have a ssh server on it that you connect to directly.
I don't use lish often, but when I need it, nothing else comes close.