How To connect to your server / Web Hosting account in Secured Shell

Several services are offering a Secured Shell connection (SSH).

Among those services you can find the following:

Shared Web Hosting
Reseller Web Hosting
Linux VPS
Linux Dedicated Servers

You'll find below the required guidelines to be able to login

1) Download any SSH client such as the Putty that you can find below :

http://www.host-stage.net/client-area/dl.php?type=d&id=21

2) Open the putty.exe program

3) Type your IP address

4) Dealing with the port number, find the specifications below :

a. For Linux Dedicated and Linux VPS, the port by default is 22

b. For Shared and Reseller Web Hosting account, the ports have been mapped to 2223.


You can find a descriptive screenshot below :

How to connect in SSH with putty

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