Lisa, Most of those accounts were on the first URL that was viewed in the past couple of days. I'm not going to say it again about the status I have found because it has not changed. n troubleshooting (and decision making in general) we often find that our basic premise is flawed. Excuse me. I've never in my life met you. As far as the other options they are not feasible. I have stated in my orginal post what is needed. I know how SSH works and what I need to do with it. I just need a shell account with screen, prefer weechat but irssi works, ssh. There will be NO compiling, no pen/sec testing, no other activity on this account. Its a message board for family/friends who are on different cycles to leave private messages on a shell that stays up consistentlyand can be accessed in a mobile state. Along with active real time capabilties. This session can then be attached/detached as necessary but still operate in the & . Vi^3PP