For instance, all three allow you to save server connections. The three I’ve worked with most recently are ThroughPut’s $4 SSH, Instant Cocoa’s $5 pTerm and Aji’s $9 TouchTerm Pro.Īll three apps share some core functionality. In that vein, several SSH terminal apps are also available for the iPhone. I recently reviewed LogMeIn’s iPhone app, LogMeIn Ignition for access to Windows servers, and it has saved my remote bacon on several occasions. Lugging a notebook (or even an iPad) around really isn’t the answer in these situations, so I rely on my iPhone to come to my rescue. This setup works just fine when I’m in front of a computer but, as any experienced system admin will attest, servers seem to know when you’re out to dinner or at the movies, and choose to wait until then to act up. This system lets me control my servers almost as though I were sitting at the console of the machine. Since I rarely have physical access to any of that hardware, I rely on LogMeIn much of the time to connect to the Windows servers, and I use the Mac Terminal app to open an SSH (secure shell) connection to the Linux machines.
As a partner in a Web development company, one of my jobs is to manage several Windows and Linux servers.
