Upload your public key in the control panel and use SSH (e.g. PuTTY) with your webhosting username and host name.
You can easily connect via SSH to your webhosting, directly through our Control Panel. This is done under the menu item “Website” → “SSH access” in our Control Panel.
To connect via SSH from your own computer to a Simply.com webhosting, you need to add a public key to the hosting account.
If you do not already have an SSH key pair, you can generate one with the Linux command
ssh-keygen -t rsa
This will generate both a private and a public key on your computer.
Your public key will be located in the file “id_rsa.pub”, and your private key will be in the file “id_rsa”.
You can also use the Windows programme PuTTYgen.
Once you have your public key, go to the Simply.com control panel and, under the individual product, from the “Website” menu, select the “SSH access” option. Here you can add your public SSH key. After this is done you can connect via SSH to your webhosting.
You should connect via SSH directly to the web server, using the same hostname and username as for, for example, FTP.
To be able to log in with SSH, you must have uploaded a public key; the server will use this key.
If you want to connect with PuTTY you can use Pageant to supply your private key when you connect.
This error occurs when you do not send your private key during login. Check the configuration of your SSH client.
Make sure you are sending the key.
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