First connections to TxD

I'm a begginer at all all this, so I begun reading the Knowledge Base, FAQs, forums, manuals and other docs... (a lot of reading, actually :-)

I like read docs, sure... But, I like much more to practice a little with my new toy... :-)

So, the first is to connect to your account at TxD. There's a lot of possibilities:

• Webmin
• Usermin
• SFTP (Secure FTP)
• Shell Access
• ...

The two first admin tools are web-based, and are located at https://webmin.server.textdrive.com and https://usermin.server.textdrive.com.

Secure FTP (SFTP) is similar to the old-well-know (and insecure) FTP but uses SSH encryption to securely transmit data. A good client for SFTP is Filezilla.

And finally, Shell Access can be accomplished with PuTTY, a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for Windows.

With this two last clients we should point to server.textdrive.com to connect.

I found a little slower all of this connections to TxD. Maybe the encryption layer, I don't know... I'll be watching it.

PD: As you can see, currently my operating system is Win. However I hope that I can get time to switch early to any *nix SO (GNU/Linux, *BSD, ...)

That's it!

The first post ;-)

Hi! This is my very first post to this blog (actually to any blog ;-)

Well, first of all, a warning from a friend... my english is horrible! You'll see it... It's not my mother tongue, and one of the reasons for this blog is to practice and improve my english.

Learning and enjoy TxD... this will be the main theme at this blog. I will make use of this blob to trac all my steps, discoveries, and all problems that I'll run into.

I'm a beginner in web programming, hosting and all of the related stuff but I'm just realise that this is very funny! So... let's rock'n'roll! ;-)