Accessing your hosting

Learn how to access your account using Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, SCP, and more. Although you can use cPanel to accomplish many tasks, some things are easier or possible only from the command line or by using a dedicated file management program, and this collection of articles shows you how:

• Using SSH (Secure Shell) to access your account
• Using FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• Accessing your account using SSH keys
• Using FTP with Linux hosting accounts
• Transferring files using SCP (Secure Copy)
• Warning message when you try to connect to a server using SSH
• Disabling SSH logins for the root account
• 'Too many connections from this IP' error message
• Using SSHFS (Secure Shell Filesystem)
• Enabling two-factor authentication for SSH
• 'Output truncated' message when you try to list files using FTP
• Keeping SSH connections alive
• FTP accounts do not work after FileZilla upgrade
• Changing the SSH server port number
• Setting up SFTP access for multiple users