
I'm doing well, thank you

SSH (Secure Socket Shell) is an app that allows you to basically have command line access to your site. You can do pretty much the same thing with other programs (backup database, zip it, transfer) but ssh is *much* faster. There are a list of common commands for ssh here:
http://www.jiffynet.net/faqs/sshcommands.htmlIt really sounds more technical than it probably is, if I can learn it most anyone can. I used to try to manually backup databases using phpmyadmin and download then manually add the lines back in for the site we were moving to - would take hours and hours and hours. With ssh you can backup the database, move, and re-install in less than one hour. I use this app:
Absolute Telnet/SSH - works pretty well and is pretty quick to learn.
Groupee used to have step by step instructions on how to back up and move a site, but I can't find it.