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Acces Terminal For Ubuntu Servers

Posted on November 17, 2014

Hi, i just paid for two months cloud vps hosting and don’t know where to go to start the terminal (Command line), please if there is a tutorial i could be referred to or just told what to do, it would realy healp.



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You can access your droplet via the web console in the DigitalOcean control panel. In the upper right, there is a button for console access:

This can get you quick access to your droplet’s terminal. Though you will most likely want to set up SSH access. Checkout this tutorial to get up and running:

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