View source for Connecting to your server

[[Category:Linux]]

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In order to manage you servr you will fist need to connect to it. Here are the 2 main methods what you will use to connect to your Server - Console (SSH) & FTP

==Putty (Console)==

SSH (Using Putty)

Putty is a well known SSH client that you can use to connect to your server in order to use its terminal console (Just like CMD on Windows)


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=== [http://www.2047servers.co.uk/support/downloads/putty.exe Download Putty] ===


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When you run Putty you will have a window that looks like this, you will need to put your servers IP or hostname (if set) into this box & then press Open to connect to it

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Once connected you will be asked to login using a username & password in order to gain access to the server.

Now that you have logged in you can send commands to the server. [[Commands_-_Basic|Linux Basic Commands]]

==FTP (Filezilla)==