Comments on: Configuring SSH (Secure Shell) on HostGator

By: eric

eric — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:22:58 +0000

I haven’t been able to make this or any other key-pair SSH instructions work on my Hostgator VPS. I don’t get errors — I just get a password prompt, where the correct password is the normal account password.

By: Andy Eaton

Andy Eaton — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:08:17 +0000

thanks for the info, I use hostagtor but had a few problems and my sites went down, emailed support and they got it sorted real quick. Their support is excellent.

By: sem

sem — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:12:34 +0000

when i try putty on port 2222 to myweb but it ask me username it is correct but after giving mypassword assess is denied are coming what i will do ?

By: connor

connor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:20:06 +0000

Thanks for posting the port number, I was having trouble connecting and i was suspecting that they had some other number than the default one.

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:38:46 +0000

Here I was recommending HostMonster to my readers so as to make a few affiliate sales. Thank God I finally came around to only recommending stuff I’ve used to my readers. Hostgator’s a bit pricey but for the services you get, they are definitely worth it.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:44:16 +0000

Yes, HostGator is great. I am always recommending it to others. They have a great combination of lots of features and a low affordable price. I’d say that they’re the best in shared hosting.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:19:37 +0000

Hopefully I will move to Hostgator once my current payment period with Host Monster is over. HM is giving a lot of CPU exceeded errors even without much traffic. I am getting more and more positive reviews about HG.

When I move, I will remember your post

By: Traian13

Traian13 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the info, it is nice to know the common problems that you can encounter.

@Xyem I also like the manual approach. Basically they give all the info you need in a normal environment.

By: bloggingnews01

bloggingnews01 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:59:13 +0000

Yes, while it is in a shared environment SSH is the only way to go. I can download files so much faster with TAR, chmod files, insert mysql commands, etc alot faster through the prompt rather than through the control panel….

I wouldn’t say that SSH is inherently dangerous in a web hosting environment if it is setup properly.

But I will give hostgator a try…. If it doesn’t do what I would like I am just going to host my services somewhere else…… The reason that I am trying out hostgator is the fact that I have heard positive comments on the uptime… The last hosting company I was with (dzones.com) had alot of downtime, even though they stated that they had a 99.9% uptime, which I found hard to believe….

By: Xyem

Xyem — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:59:10 +0000

I got this up and running without a problem once I tried the manual way. I’m on the ‘Baby Croc’ shared hosting plan if that makes any difference. I used a key I had already generated.

Perhaps a follow-up with the ‘manual’ way might be appropriate, in case others find themselves like-wise confused?

Cheers

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:12:37 +0000

Well, that’s strange… Perhaps the server that you are on isn’t configured for this… (Or maybe you got a confused HG admin, because you should be able to generate the keys on your server and download them.)

Either way, PuTTY isn’t too hard to set up. And it has a very easy-to-use key generator.

By: Xyem

Xyem — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:19:09 +0000

Just got another response which confirms that the SSH icon is disabled but you can still use key authentication by creating a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file with the correct information. The reply is below:

The “SSH/Shell Access” section of cpanel is disabled, however, this should not prevent you from using shared keys. You would need to login through SSH and set this up manually, however. Directions on how to accomplish this can be found here: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53b/htmldoc/Chapter8.html

By: Xyem

Xyem — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:45:04 +0000

I would like to use this but I do not have the icon in my cPanel. Asking HostGator via the ticket system left me with this response ( so far ):

Hello,

We do not have the SSH access from with cpanel enabled. You will have to use Putty. As for key authentication, this is not allowed either. At this time we only allow password authentication.

If you need anything else just let us know.

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NathonH
Night Shift Support Manager
Level 2 Systems Administrator

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:29:16 +0000

Very nice 1 2 3, thanks.