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@Admin What about you add plugins which can make us add the same functionality as SSH, but without actually doing anything.
that might be good idea
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I don’t understand that request? How would you suppose a plugin like would work? And what would it “plug in” to? How do you propose a plugin could add functionality like SSH, but also not doing anything (i.e. not offering any SSH like facility)?
Taking your description literally, it sounds like a dummy terminal which does nothing at all. But there are plenty of those already online, which are equally unhelpful as any dummy terminal we would offer.
And while SSH itself is simple, the power unlocked through a remote shell could be MASSIVE. So without knowing what you actually want to do over SSH, it’s not easy to build a mock terminal.
And I already explained before why a web terminal is probably not what you’re looking for:
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- What kind of alternatives are there to SSH?
- As the Admin says, without knowing EXACTLY what we(you) need, it is exploitable.
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What about this. You know how everybody using your hosting each has an allocated sector of memory within the server. What about within the server, you add a new partition, allowing us to access only that that one partition. We have SSH access to that one partition with some lightweight version of Linux. The Linux partition is very small, which only holds Linux itself and acts like a centralized bridge to all the other partitions with only a few commands, something like Busybox. Each one of the partitions are encrypted. We can login to Linux with our username and password which we use to login into the VistaPanel. Once we login to access the our partition we have to input a password to unlock it. Once we do that it will then unlock that partition, and now we can now use the other commands using probably symlinksstored on our user directory or some other kind of implementation. Using the symlinks will allow us to pass the commands from this small partition to the other, saving all our data not on the small partition but on the other, bigger user partition. Will this work?
To start, I would like to state clearly that we do whatever we can to increase account density on servers. Some exotic tweaks have been made to systems in order to reliably increase the number of accounts on servers. We do this because servers are expensive, and we need to keep costs down in order to be able to offer our hosting for free.
One way we do that is by not allocate any memory or other server resources to specific accounts. We load balance accounts based on current usage on the servers, and place limits on how much each account can use. But there is no reserved capacity for any account. It would be weird to let server power go unused because some lightly used accounts don’t use up their reservation, while simultaneously enforcing more harsh restrictions on other accounts.
Also, the entire thing you’ve described sounds a lot like Linux Containers of some kind. With a Linux Container, you get a group of isolated processes locked to your own account, backed by a virtual file system which may mirror the host file system. This technology has various applications. Docker, and related technology, is one popular application of containers. OpenVZ and LXC are container platform typically used to offer VPS. And VirtFS from cPanel and LVE from CloudLinux use container technology to isolate hosting accounts.
Containers are great because they allow isolation without the overhead of a full virtual machine. But while the overhead of containers is small, there is overhead. And while this overhead is not apparent with a few dozen containers, it’s definitely noticeable with tens of thousands of containers.
For this reason, shell containers are only available with iFastNet’s VPS and Business Hosting services. iFastNet’s premium hosting and free hosting platforms don’t have this and won’t get it.
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