How to log into SSH with Free Putty

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use free Putty to log in to SSH hosting. SSH is a text console access to our hosting system. We can use the console to issue commands and do things that are not normally available from the hosting panel. It is also necessary to be able to run bash scripts that automate our work, as well as to use WP-CLI

Download, install and run the PuTTY SSH client, and then enter the SSH IP address and SSH port of the server. You will find this data on your hosting website. Click the Open button to continue.

A “login as” message will appear: it will ask for your SSH username. For VPS users, this is usually root. However, for shared hosting users, you need to enter a predefined username, such as u721233450. You will get login details from your hosting provider. After entering your username, press Enter.

You can also save the connection at this point by giving it a name in “Saved Sessions” and clicking Save.

Enter your SSH password and press Enter again. For security reasons, the screen won't show your password, but it will record what you type.

At this point, a message may appear asking whether to add the server to the trusted list. Click “Yes” and the server will be saved as trusted

At this point, we should see a welcome message (depending on the hosting, it may not be there) and we are already logged in. At this point, the PLINK utility should also be working to run scripts via SSH (part of the Putty package). We've finished basic SSH setup and commissioning.