IMO terminal protocols are more suited to UDP than TCP and I use ssh over UDP all the time. There are three main advantages: * There is no connection session,

IMO terminal protocols are more suited to UDP than TCP and I use ssh over UDP all the time. There are three main advantages: * There is no connection session, so you can close your laptop or put it to sleep and open it up again and the connection will still be there. * You don't have the lag of sending and then responding, it appears locally immediately * It is much easier to get UDP around firewalls and it can't be blocked easily in the same way most VPN protocols or SSH can. I have yet to find a network where I can't get my terminal UDP packets through. The alternative to Mosh is setting up OpenVPN[1]. It is especially worthwhile if you have a network of public servers that you administer. It is easy to setup[2] and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. The best tip is to add a second interface to all your machines and setup a private VLAN across them. This way if you are experiencing a DoS attack or high traffic you can still login and administer the machine (this also applies with standard ssh - you put it in a different range of IPs and on your public machines then only have 80 and 443 open). EC2[3], Linode[4] et al all support adding a second network interface to each machine (or to just one of the machines, which is then used as a gateway to the remainder) which can be assigned an IP address in a different range. You then setup a separate hostname to this network, or even register a separate administrative domain name (eg. company-admin.com) which you keep on a different registrar, whois record, etc. [1] http://openvpn.net/ http://openvpn.net/ [2] http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto... [3] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/07/multiple-ip-addresses-for-ec2-instances-in-a-virtual-private-cloud.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/07/multiple-ip-addresses-for... [4] http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_IPs http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_IPs