A2Hosting SSH Connectivity Steps You Should Aware Of

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Do you need an idea about how to use A2Hosting SSH connection?.

Let us see how to get connected to A2 Hosting account using one of the SSH clients in detail via this blog post.

A2Hosting SSH Overview:

For newbies to A2 Hosting, here is the small intro about this Hosting provider.

When it comes to managed VPS Cpanel hosting, A2 hosting is definitely one of the best options out there.

It is simple, backed by some of the best features and extremely affordable.

Basic VPS plan starts at just $32 per month.

While the entry-level option will cost you less than $10 every month, the most advanced option, Cloud VPS comes at a price of $15.

Both the entry-level and advanced servers are great in terms of operation and functionality.

The provider lets you operate from a dynamic server, offers turbo SSD hosting and also comes with RAID 10 Disk configuration for your VPS hosting.

It has a great uptime and an equally excellent technical support.

Once you got your A2 Hosting account created, you should host all your website files on the hosting server.

This can be done either by connecting to A2 Hosting account using SSH or directly by hosting files in A2 Hosting account File manager.

A2Hosting SSH Connectivity Steps To Be Followed :

SSH helps you to access your A2 Hosting account in a secured manner as like remote login.

Let us what are all the steps need to be followed for Windows OS and Linux in this section.

A2Hosting SSH Connectivity in Windows OS:

1. If you are using windows OS, you need to download one of the SSH Client like PuTTY from this link
2. Then you can use the downloaded Putty to get connected to your A2 Hosting account.
3. After you done with the PuTTY installation from the above link, just launch PuTTY to start with.
4. While starting, you will be asked to enter Host Name details.
5. Ensure you need to type username@mywebsite.com in the Hostname field where username is your A2 Hosting username and mywebsite.com should be your site’s domain name.
6. Next, you need to enter ‘7822‘ for the port field. Even though default port for SSH is 22 but A2 hosting is not using it.
7. Remember to set Connection type radio button value to SSH as we are going to use SSH connection as of now.
8. After entering all the required details, you are ready to get in. Then click open.
9. You will come across a PuTTY security alert about the server’s host key. You can simply go with Yes and then proceed.
10. Then you need to enter your account password and click enter key.
11. If you see remote server’s command line prompt then you are connected. The first command in the window will be as follows.

    [email protected] [~]#

12. Now you can start running commands as per your requirement. If you want to close the SSH connection, you can type exit and then press Enter key.

 

A2Hosting SSH Connectivity in Mac OS\Linux :

You no need to download any of the SSH clients like PuTTY as we do for Windows OS because here in Linux or Mac OS, SSH is inbuilt.

1. On Mac OS, you need to click Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
2. Type the following command at the command prompt

   ssh -p 7822 username@mywebsite.com 

   where 7822 = port number(dont change it)

   username = Replace with your A2 Hosting account username

   mywebsite = Replace with your domain name

3. Remaining all steps same as like for Windows OS. You need to enter your account password and press enter key.
4. If you see remote server’s command line prompt then you are connected. The first command in the window will be as follows.

   [email protected] [~]#

5. Now you can start running commands as per your requirement. If you want to close the SSH connection, you can type exit and then press Enter key.

If you find any issues while attempting with the above connection let me know via comment section.  Will share a solution for the same if possible in the upcoming blog post.

 

Conclusion:

Hope you have enjoyed reading this A2Hosting SSH connectivity related article.  If you have any queries or thoughts kindly let me know.

Happy to help you by answering all your doubts.

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