SSH can really be used for almost everything. It's a different thing if it actually _should_ be used for everything. My favourite one: http://en.wikipedia.org/

SSH can really be used for almost everything. It's a different thing if it actually _should_ be used for everything. My favourite one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS Whenever I'm developing for my mobile phone I actually have the contents mounted on my desktop via sshfs as an actual filesystem. What that means? Don't bother with FTP servers. ssh access to your server is all you need.