shell.gradwell.net

shell.gradwell.net is an interactive Linux shell server running on our VMWare ESX platform. Customers who have web hosting accounts can log into shell.gradwell.net to upload their websites, edit the website directly on our server, and also to run Linux commands.

• Hostname: shell.gradwell.net.
• Operating system: CentOS Linux 5.x.
• Server CPU: 1 x Intel Xeon E5320 @ 1.86 GHz
• Server RAM: 512 MB

shell.gradwell.net has a range of useful Linux utilities installed. If you need anything adding, please raise a support request. We don't guarantee to install all requested utilities.

shell.gradwell.net is mainly here for customers to run scripts on, but it does have a full compiler toolchain installed. You are welcome to compile and install any software that you need (e.g. CGI binaries to run on your web site), but please do not install your own web server onto shell.gradwell.net.

We update shell.gradwell.net regularly to pick up the latest security patches. These updates may break any software that you have installed. Please make sure you keep a copy of the source code for the software in case you need to re-compile it.