Saturday, January 14, 2012

Accessing Your Dedicated Server With SSH

By Kevin Abrahams


If you are just making your way into dedicated hosting there will be many things that you will want to learn about. Every user is different and doesn't have the same level of knowledge or indeed, the same desire to learn about how to get the best from their package. Being able to find your own level is a great thing with any past-time but given the fact that dedicated hosting can be a lucrative business to be in, it is easy to see why so many people are looking to wise up about its benefits.

SSH is the short hand description for Secure Shell and it is associated with the Unix interface and protocol. This is essential in gaining access to a remote control and is an extremely secure method. You do not need anyone to tell you how important security is so being in control of your logging in methods is essential to retain this level of security.

SSH is a mixture of three separate utilities, scp, ssh and slogin, and these are all secure variations of previous UNIX utilities, which were rcp, rsh and rlogin. A major benefit of using SSH commands comes with the fact that these commands are encrypted and secured in a number of different methods. There is an authentication process at either side of the client and server connection, which is completed with a digital certificate and all passwords are secured by encryption.

A key factor in using SSH is the fact that it allows you to connect to the dedicated hosting server and carry out Linux command-line operations. If you use a Windows based Operating System, you will realise that there is no default SSH client although many are available to choose from. PuTTY is one of the most popular and probably one of the easiest for beginners to use.

SSH is something that can greatly increase your security levels and every dedicated hosting user should at least give it some consideration.




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