Updating site from a netcafe

When traveling or without a labtop

[webjourneyman]

If you buy or have a free site at angelfire or geocities included in the package is a control panel that lets you update your site from any old computer, be it in a netcafe or library. This seems very attractive to me to be able to work on the site wherever and whenever you have access to the internet without having to drag a labtop around with you. I would have bought a hosting plan with those two were it not for the very limited server space, 1/10 of what yahoo offers for the same price. Does anyone know of a similar service or any other solutions to this?

[2by4]

Use a usb memory stick and install an ftp client on it. Or you can install an ftp upload tool on the site and upload new files that way.

[ronin]

Or try:

http://www.net2ftp.com/ [net2ftp.com]

[Prolific]

NEVER use a public terminal to update your website or doing anything where you have to put in your username, password, credit card, etc, etc.... unless you want to let some hacker have at it. Public terminals are dangerous!

[webjourneyman]

Thanks for the replys, I posted this question in another popular forum and got no response, here I have a solution within 6 hrs. Should have got here sooner!

Yes, security is an issue when using public terminals. I would hesitate before entering credit card info. Still isnīt the only way to steal that information if the computer has installed a spyware that logs keystrokes? If Iīm doing buissness on a secure page (https) the chances of being hacked are the same as from ones own computer since the attack would be directed on a router or server? Can anyone advise on how to make a risk assessment when using public terminals, does there excist a website one could ask to check out the terminal being used?

[2by4]

If somebody has manually installed a keystroke logger on the terminal it's going to be pretty hard to detect, and I wouldn't trust any online scan to find it.

However, if you setup an ftp client such as filezilla on a usb stick to access your websites, there are no keystrokes to log since the passwords etc are already entered.