I saw this interesting note on a forum at my host:
SimpleScripts allows you to setup an account directly on the website - get a free demo account at https://www.simplescripts.com/signup. Once you have an account you can input your hosting account information and it will allow you to perform installations.
I’ve used SimpleScripts (in cPanel at BlueHost) and it has a very smooth and fast install for both Revolution and Evolution and is pretty good about updating to the latest version (they already have Revo 2.0.3 up). You can also update through SimpleScripts and they allow you to backup an install and roll back an upgrade.
I assume that you give them your FTP access info.
The link above is dead, but this one works:
https://www.simplescripts.com/personal
Nice service! Thanks for sharing!
Add-On to easily manage your multilingual sites:
Babel
Yeah, lately I don’t want to have to deal with hosting issues so I try to have my clients get their own hosting accounts. SimpleScripts has been a great thing for me, but on the other hand I have to manually update and install my customized stuff. In most cases it’s great.