Can anyone recommend shared Linux hosting in Ireland that provides any one or more of the following:
- SSH access
- Remote-remote FTP support (FXP)
- A file manager that can extract tarballs (.tar.gz)
- A file manager that can handle large numbers of files
Basically, I'm trying to install Magento on shared hosting. I already have it running, performance is acceptable.
The problem is that to get the latest version installed is a nightmare. I need to run it in parallel to confirm I have no issues before upgrading, but I can't even get the installation files extracted into a folder.
- I've no SSH access, so can't do a wget to retrieve the install archive.
- After FTPing the archive down from Magento to my local machine and back up to the server, I found the file manager can only handle zip files, not tars.
- I extracted it and zipped it locally, uploaded it again, to find the file manager crashed extracting the archive
- I FTPd all the files individually, which took over an hour (10000+ files). I then discovered I needed to move them up a folder level - file manager crashed again, after partially completing the process, leaving the whole subfolder structure corrupt. As a final insult, it's now repeatedly borking while I try to delete everything and start again.
I've even tried uploading scripts to do the wget, tar extraction, or even just a mv, but these don't work, presumably due to security restrictions (fair enough).
I've been advised by support that their file manager can't handle large numbers of files, or large archives, and I should do everything through FTP - this isn't really practical since it's so slow.
It's frustrating since it would all be done in seconds with a tar -zxvf and an mv, but I've wasted half a day on it so far.
I know I could upgrade to a VPS and get SSH access and everything would be fine, but given that my only current problem is basic file management this seems a bit extreme.
- SSH access
- Remote-remote FTP support (FXP)
- A file manager that can extract tarballs (.tar.gz)
- A file manager that can handle large numbers of files
Basically, I'm trying to install Magento on shared hosting. I already have it running, performance is acceptable.
The problem is that to get the latest version installed is a nightmare. I need to run it in parallel to confirm I have no issues before upgrading, but I can't even get the installation files extracted into a folder.
- I've no SSH access, so can't do a wget to retrieve the install archive.
- After FTPing the archive down from Magento to my local machine and back up to the server, I found the file manager can only handle zip files, not tars.
- I extracted it and zipped it locally, uploaded it again, to find the file manager crashed extracting the archive
- I FTPd all the files individually, which took over an hour (10000+ files). I then discovered I needed to move them up a folder level - file manager crashed again, after partially completing the process, leaving the whole subfolder structure corrupt. As a final insult, it's now repeatedly borking while I try to delete everything and start again.
I've even tried uploading scripts to do the wget, tar extraction, or even just a mv, but these don't work, presumably due to security restrictions (fair enough).
I've been advised by support that their file manager can't handle large numbers of files, or large archives, and I should do everything through FTP - this isn't really practical since it's so slow.
It's frustrating since it would all be done in seconds with a tar -zxvf and an mv, but I've wasted half a day on it so far.
I know I could upgrade to a VPS and get SSH access and everything would be fine, but given that my only current problem is basic file management this seems a bit extreme.