From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 18:16:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D22106566B for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.de) Received: from pukruppa.de (pd95cabe3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.171.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185AC8FC1A for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pukruppa.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p8RIKg0R021763; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:20:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.de) Message-ID: <4E8213FA.6000601@pukruppa.de> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:20:42 +0200 From: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [0.5 OT] Looking for recommendation on Unix shell account X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:16:48 -0000 Hi, On 27.09.2011 14:29, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > Hi, > > For reasons hard to explain I need to set-up a Unix (preferably > FreeBSD) shell account that I can access from anywhere. > > Arbornet and PBS were the first names that came to my mind, but I'm > open to other options. I don't mind paying a regular fee for it. > Privacy and security are my main concerns. Hmm, that really depends on the reasons you can't explain. For example - if your internet service provider could give you a fixed IP Address you could just log into your own FreeBSD machine via ssh - very secure I believe. Or you could puchase one of these (virtual) root servers and there are dynamic ip services ... As I said: it depends. Greetings Peter. > > Thanks in advance for your recommendations. > -- Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany