03 Jan 12, 01:48AM
Oh, the confusion...
Of course SSH is a protocol, but clients implementing this protocol are often just called "ssh" as well.
Programs don't "access" a protocol. They use it, implement it, or whatever.
Now, you indeed use a client which implements the SSH protocol to access a server, and since with those kinds of hosting you don't get an entire server for yourself, you access only a specific "area" of said server.
Of course SSH is a protocol, but clients implementing this protocol are often just called "ssh" as well.
Programs don't "access" a protocol. They use it, implement it, or whatever.
Now, you indeed use a client which implements the SSH protocol to access a server, and since with those kinds of hosting you don't get an entire server for yourself, you access only a specific "area" of said server.