Secure Shell, commonly known as SSH, is a cryptographic network protocol used to execute commands on a remote web server or to exchange information between a website hosting server and a client. Because the information exchanged by the two sides is encoded, a 3rd party simply cannot intercept it, which makes SSH a favorite means of handling an Internet hosting account. The commands which could be executed depend on the type of hosting service. On a shared web server, for instance, the choices are limited since you shall not have root access to the machine, so you can only create/move/delete files, create and unpack archives, export and import databases, and so forth. They're all actions that are carried out inside the shared hosting account and do not need a higher level of access. With a virtual or a dedicated server, you shall be able to install server-side software or to restart the hosting server or just a certain service (web server, database server, etc.). SSH commands are submitted with a command line, but if you don't use a UNIX-like OS, there are a lot of applications for other OSs, you can employ to connect to the remote web server as well.
SSH Telnet in Shared Website Hosting
SSH access is available with all shared website hosting that we provide. With some of them, it is featured by default, while with others it's an optional upgrade you can add with a few clicks from your hosting CP. You could get SSH access from the section related to it where you can also find the details you need to connect - the host, the port number and the username. You could choose the password which you will use and, if needed, you shall be able to change it with several clicks from the same place. All of the commands which can be used with our shared plans are listed inside a help article alongside relevant instances. If the SSH access feature is permitted for your account, you shall also be able to upload files through your favorite FTP client via an SFTP connection.