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What program (W7) to use to connect to my droplet (14.04/WP) console?

Posted on February 10, 2015

Cause the online console window does not let me paste my ssh key…

I need to know what program and what port to use, can anyone point me in the right direction… I’m kinda lost having tried and failed telnet, winbox, filezilla, etc…

Sorry for the stupid question… ^^



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@kooperg DO droplets use SSH to access the console, while putty works, try something more useful like Bitvise (SSH client, SFTP Client, SFTP Bridge, and lot more).

Also SSH uses port 22, 80 is just for accessing the webserver ;-)

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