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The UNIX shell is a bit of a legend in the world of computing. It has made it's way into many operating systems for both enterprise use and normal day to day personal computing. For day to day use, you can see it on devices like MacOS computers as well as Android smartphones and even microwave ovens thanks to companies like Amazon, and in enterprise, you might see it on NAS devices all the way up to super computers and mainframes. But what does that mean? Much like windows is an operating system we have all grown accustomed to use and love, UNIX is an operating system that can do many of the things a windows 10 computer can do. The differnce is in how you interact with it. UNIX rests at the heart of the computer much like DOS is to windows, but there is no one familiar GUI for UNIX computers. Also, people more often associate UNIX with the command line. Now don't get overwhelmed... the command line is just like the desktop environment. The difference is in how you see it. If you like the Matrix, you will love everything im about to say. If you dont, you will still like it. Moving from folder to folder is still possible, launching applicatinos also, and even playing music. But how? Instead of clicking on the file explorer, you might type cd /fileexplorer and instead of clicking play on a song in itunes, you might run a command like itunes --random /documents/music/jcole. Its just an implementation with a change in concept. Now, it's time for the UNIX shell. Our hosting, and many hosting providers online, can be adminstered using command line, and Unix Commerce has provided the UNIX shell for use to manage your hosting. Just visit your cPanel and create your FTP credentials and use those credentials to login via SSH on port 2222. It may take 1 hour to learn, but it will be cake as you expand your skillset. Thank you for taking the time to learn a bit more about UNIX.