SSH access is included free on our advanced package, and can be enabled for £10£11.75/year on any of our other packages.
Secure Shell Access lets you administer your hosting account from the command line - it is intended for advanced users only.
For security reasons you will need to ask us to enable shell access, and we will need to lock it down to your IP address.
If you require full root shell access, why not take a look at one of our virtual dedicated servers.
You can use a program such as putty for the pc, or terminal for the mac, to connect to your account. You login with the same username and password as for your cPanel account.
Zip/Unzip: Compress or Uncompress files
cp: Copy files
aspell: Check spelling
awk: Find and replace
crontab: Schedule a task
vi: Text editor