Conecting to your Website with SSH

This tutorial is going to cover how to connect to your server using a secure connection (often called SSH). Connecting to your server via SSH is very useful in the administration of your server including installing scripts/programs and checking your server logs as well as many other technical maintenance applications.

First things first, to connect to your server we recommend downloading Putty, you can download putty by [clicking here] *when you click on the previous link you will be taken to the putty download page where you have the option to download several programs, to download Putty click on the first link

Once you have downloaded Putty, run the auto installer and you are ready to go.   Now open up the program and select the SSH option.  Then in the top box labeled Host name or IP type in your sites IP address.  If you do not know your sites IP address you can find it easily by referring to our post about [pinging your website] *note make sure port 22 is selected in the Port box

Now once you have your IP  address entered, click the open button, this will bring up a window that will be asking for your password. *this is the same password that you use to login to your cpanel account.  Type in your password and press the enter button.  You will now be logged in to your server and ready to run linux commands.