Putty, the SSH Telnet client

Posted On Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 By Ravi

Windows sucks. It should have had no entry in the Server market, but unfortunately the 15% loosers who use it have given it a 15% market share. Well, thats besides the point. If you use Windows and if you wish to access your linux server’s shell, you need to use putty. But if you are on linux like me, all that you would need is is a terminal window with which you can access shell or telnet as you like. Putty is an opensource exe that you can install on your windows computer. It is available for linux also, but it is better to use the terminal on the linux server. With the IP and the ssh port you will be able to connecto to the server and do all the shell operations that you will need to. Well, shell operations are only needed for higher level server operations such as migrating a database and stuff. Technically putting up a simple website offering acne treatments shouldn’t be a tough job as all that you need for it would be plain html. If you are not used to shell, and if you think it is something like dos, you are completely Continue Reading