Now that your service has been delivered, and we already sent you a delivery proof by e-mail or within the customer area. It’s time to get access to your excellent purchased service, please follow this article to learn how to access your Windows or Linux server.
To do this, you need an application to access your service. In SSH, we will use PuTTY for Linux servers and RDP, we will use remote desktop for Windows servers.
We will show now how to access your Linux server first. If you want to learn how to access your Windows server, please scroll below!
You can download the PuTTY program here.
If you already have this program installed, you can open it, and this GUI will welcome you.
Once you have PuTTY GUI on the screen, you can go to your service and copy the IP assigned to your server in the “Hostname (or IP Address)” field in PuTTY.
After entering the IP address, click open to be greeted by SSH on your server. After typing the user name we assigned to your server on your customer area, press enter, and once prompted for the password, paste the password there or type it. For security reasons, the password will not appear as entered when entering, but press enter, and you should be able to log in successfully!
Now that you have access to your server for the first time, you need to upgrade packages!
Debian / Ubuntu:
apt update
apt upgrade
CentOS / RedHat:
yum update
Executing these commands will prompt you to answer yes/no to approve the updated packages. Usually, your answer will be yes.
Now, how do you access your windows server? Let’s go!
If you have Windows 10, you may need to activate the remote desktop.
Open the application: Remote Desktop (the name may differ depending on your Windows language).
Enter the IP address of your server in the computer field, the IP address of your server is on your customer area.
Enter the username (Administrator) and password of your service. The password of your server is on your customer area.
Click the OK button.
If a yellow warning appears, press Yes.
Nice! Now you have learned on how to access your Windows or Linux server!