Thread:Project:Support desk/Extension:MaintenanceShell (2)/reply (5)

Free hosting often does not offer SSH access.

You can search for other MediaWiki extensions, which offer this functionality, but you might have other problems trying to run these extensions then: Free hosters often disable certain PHP functions (like exec for example). However, such functions often are needed to run the maintenance scripts.

What you could try as a last idea, is: Run the maintenance scripts from the webbrowser. They are not made for that and I don't know if it works, but it's worth a try.

You can get rid of all these problems easily: Go to a reasonable hoster.