Working with Secure Shell
Explore how to use Secure Shell (SSH) to remotely access and manage your website's server securely. Learn essential SSH commands, port settings, and how SSH enhances server communication encryption to keep your web deployment safe.
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Secure Shell, popularly known as SSH, is a platform which allows us to remotely control our server over an internet connection. It is a terminal based protocol system which is available on macOS, Linux and Windows.
SSH was originally developed because of the security concerns regarding its predecessor, Telnet. Server communication is now much more secure because of the data encryption methods used by the SSH protocol. In terms of functional power, SSH allows us to basically control every aspect of the server running our website.
Now, let’s take a look at how we can set up the SSH terminal on our machine.
The SSH Environment
SSH comes in-built with Linux and macOS. We can access it using the terminal. For Windows, there are several SSH clients like PuTTY ...