Secure Shell, commonly known as SSH, is a cryptographic network protocol that is used to execute commands on a remote hosting server or to exchange data between a website hosting server and a client. Since the data exchanged by the 2 sides is encoded, a third party simply cannot intercept it, which makes SSH a favored means of managing an Internet hosting account. The commands which can be executed are determined by the type of hosting service. On a shared hosting server, for instance, the alternatives are limited as you'll not have root access to the web server, so you could just create/move/delete files, create and unpack archives, export and import databases, and so forth. They're all actions that are performed in the shared hosting account and don't need a higher level of access. Through a virtual or a dedicated server, you'll be able to install server-side software or to restart the machine or only a specific service (web server, database server, etc.). SSH commands are submitted via a command line, but if you do not use a UNIX-like Operating System, there are a lot of applications for other OSs, you can employ to connect to the remote hosting server as well.

SSH Telnet in Shared Hosting

When you have a shared hosting account with our company and you'd like to manage your content remotely through SSH, you can easily obtain SSH access to the account via your Hepsia Control Panel. If your package does not come with this feature as standard, you could add it with a few clicks via the Upgrades menu. Within the SSH section of the Control Panel, you will see the host, the port number and the username that you need to use when you connect to the account. You can also choose what password you would like to use, since it doesn't need to be the same as the one for your account. We've prepared a lot of Help articles in which you can find all of the commands you will be able to use with a shared hosting plan, along with examples of how they are used. Moreover, if SSH access is enabled for your account, you'll be able to establish a Secure FTP (SFTP) connection through a standard client such as FileZilla, for example.