Alden Hosting provides professional, efficient, and reliable business-class Web hosting services to small- and medium-sized businesses.

Alden Hosting offers SSH and SFTP access with our Web Hosting Plan WEB 5 PLAN .

SSH Terminal Access
We include with our Web Hosting plan 5 shell access. UNIX Shell access is granted to our clients via Secure Shell (SSH).

SSH is a fully encrypted and secure protocol for accessing the shell on UNIX servers. SSH is very similar to telnet, but, SSH is a fully encrypted method of communicating with the server. This means that SSH connections encrypt data sent between the client and the server - ensuring that things like your passwords or other sensitive information are not intercepted in transit.

As you may already know, having access to the shell is a necessity when developing, installing or debugging CGI's, Perl, PHP or other scripts. Using SSH you'll have full access to the following:

• Apache Web server access and error log files
• Tomcat Java Servlet Engine log files

There are several SSH client software packages available for free. If you don't already have one, you can download one of the SSH clients shown below.

PuTTY - A well known, free and feature-rich SSH Client. Runs on all versions of Windows including Windows 95 or newer. (There is also an version for Windows NT on Alpha.)

MacSSH - MacSSH is an SSH client for use on Mac computers that are running older versions of the MacOS. Any MacOS version less than MacOS X can use MacSSH. MacOS X or newer includes ssh by default.

Telnet is Disabled
We do not enable Telnet on our web servers.

Telnet is an insecure protocol that transmits data in the clear. This means that every password, every command - in short - everything you do via Telnet is transmitted in plain text between you and the server. Anyone who is monitoring your connection to the Internet can view all of the data you transmit or receive via Telnet. This could lead to passwords or other sensitive data being compromised.

In addition to the risk of data interception, telnet is known to have several security holes.

For these reasons, we only allow secure SSH connections to our server. This helps to ensure the security of all of the accounts on our servers. In addition, it keeps our servers from being the target of exploits or hack attempts.

sFTP
sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp, which performs all operations over an encrypted ssh transport. It may also use many features of ssh, such as public key authentication and compression. sftp connects and logs into the specified host, then enters an interactive command mode.

The second usage format will retrieve files automatically if a non-interactive authentication method is used such as PUBLIC/PRIVATE keys authentication; otherwise it will do so after successful interactive authentication.

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