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How to connect to Instances with SSH

Redundant Web Services Instances are managed using terminal and SSH. You need to have an SSH client and, optionally, an SSH key pair. Clients generally authenticate either using passwords (which are less secure and not recommended) or SSH keys (which are very secure and strongly recommended).

To log in to your Instance with SSH, you need three pieces of information:

  • The Instance’s IP address
  • The default username on the server
  • The default password for that username, if you aren’t using SSH keys

To get your Instance’s IP address, visit the Redundant Web Services Console. Locate you instance in the dashboard. The IP address is displayed in the IP Address column under your instance.

The default username is root on most operating systems, like Ubuntu and CentOS.

Once you have your Instance’s IP address, username, and password (if necessary), follow the instructions for your SSH client. OpenSSH is included on Linux, macOS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux. Windows users with Bash also have access to OpenSSH. Windows users without Bash can use PuTTy.