[dangrossman]

How is that going to help when over 10 million people are running WordPress on shared hosting accounts where MySQL and FTP are the only database and only file transfer options?

[tibbon]

I don't see what would prevent those hosts from updating. Its not like installing SFTP and Postgres is that big of a deal (even on a huge deployment, it shouldn't take that long...)

[Nux]

Many shared hosting providers nowadays offer SSL FTP and even SFTP. It's just a question of educating the users.

[tibbon]

Exactly. I don't expect all users to start manually SSH'ing into systems, but at least use SSL FTP or SFTP.

[khet]

Maybe it's time for a change?