I'm looking for a provider that offers shell accounts primarily for
E-Mail.  I want to use mutt to read my E-Mail, thus connect using ssh
to a Linux/BSD/Unix shell.

What I want that is slightly out of the ordinary is lots of disk
quota, e.g. 300Mb or 500Mb or so.  I'm quite happy to pay a reasonable
amount for this.

I don't need web hosting or domain hosting or anything like that, just
a reliable and fast ssh connection to a shell command line.

-- 
Chris Green

usenet@isbd.co.uk :
> I'm looking for a provider that offers shell accounts primarily for
> E-Mail.  I want to use mutt to read my E-Mail, thus connect using ssh
> to a Linux/BSD/Unix shell.
>
> What I want that is slightly out of the ordinary is lots of disk
> quota, e.g. 300Mb or 500Mb or so.  I'm quite happy to pay a reasonable
> amount for this.
>
> I don't need web hosting or domain hosting or anything like that, just
> a reliable and fast ssh connection to a shell command line.

I think you'll struggle to find such an offering without its also including
web hosting.

However, Black Cat Networks have a good reputation and offer this

   <URL:http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/services/shell>

which gives you 1GB of disk space (and other stuff that you don't want).

b.

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:35:39 +0000, Ben Shimmin 
    wrote:

> usenet@isbd.co.uk :
>> I'm looking for a provider that offers shell accounts primarily for
>> E-Mail.  I want to use mutt to read my E-Mail, thus connect using ssh
>> to a Linux/BSD/Unix shell.
>>
>> What I want that is slightly out of the ordinary is lots of disk
>> quota, e.g. 300Mb or 500Mb or so.  I'm quite happy to pay a reasonable
>> amount for this.
>>
>> I don't need web hosting or domain hosting or anything like that, just
>> a reliable and fast ssh connection to a shell command line.
> 
> I think you'll struggle to find such an offering without its also including
> web hosting.
> 
> However, Black Cat Networks have a good reputation and offer this
> 
>    <URL:http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/services/shell>
> 
> which gives you 1GB of disk space (and other stuff that you don't want).

Hurricane Electric in Fremont California offer web hosting (which you
don't need) plus a shell plus 1GB for US$9.85 per month.  They have
mutt, pine and elm (at least, those are the ones I checked just now --
keristor.net is hosted there).  I don't know which distro they are
using, but it's Linux with a full development environment (including
Perl, gcc and tcl), accessible with ssh (only, no telnet insecure
access).

(I'm not connected with them except as a user -- I have the next account
type up, at US$25 per month with 5GB of disk...)

Chris C