🔗How to connect via SSH and SFTP

Connection to Linux-based servers is done using SSH/sFTP protocols. Let's see how it can be done!

How do I connect? #

To connect to a Linux server you need SSH and sFTP clients.

Links to the most popular Windows clients!

• PuTTY — SSH-client.

• Termius — alternate SSH-client.

• FileZilla — FTP-client.

• WinSCP — alternate FTP-client.

In this case we recommend to use WinSCP for SFTP connection, but as the most suitable option for newbies, below we will describe the connection through FileZilla.

Инструкция

You can see the data for connection in an e-mail message or select the service in your personal cabinet and click on it to open the service page.

For SFTP and SSH connections identical data is used.

PuTTY

Procedure for connecting to VDS/VPS Linux via SSH

1. In the Host Name field, enter the IP address of your server.

2. Next, enter a port. The default setting is 22

3. Click the button to connect - Open.

   

Next, you need to specify the user name (the default is root). Then enter the password.

The password in PuTTY is entered in invisible characters!

To insert text into PuTTY, you need to press PCM (right mouse button) for Windows.