Enabling SSH and SFTP access on a hosting service

Using the cPanel terminal

If you’d prefer to use cPanel’s inbuilt Terminal, please follow these steps.

Enabling SSH Access

Before you can connect to your cPanel web hosting service via shell, you will need to enable SSH. If you have a cPanel shared hosting service, follow these steps:

1. Log in to VIPcontrol.
2. Click the My Services at the top of the page.
3. Click on cPanel Hosting.
4. Click the Manage button for the hosting service that you wish to alter.
5. From this page, click SSH Access on the left side under Configuration.
6. Finally, select Add IP Address under the SSH Access header and enter the IP address that you want to whitelist.

If you have a WHM service, please follow the steps in this article to enable SSH on a cPanel account.

Important information

• Our SSH port is 2683.

Connecting to your hosting service via SSH

If you’re not sure how to connect to your web hosting service via SSH, you can follow these steps on how to use Putty to do so.