PuTTY in Digitalocean is a free and open-source terminal emulator that allows us to connect to the server and manage the files on it.

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Let’s learn more about the Digitalocean platform’s use of putty.

PuTTY in Digitalocean

DigitalOcean is not a managed hosting company, we must do everything ourselves. If we had previously used shared hosting, we may have seen that they offer a built-in FTP feature on their cPanel that allows us to manage files on our server. But, DigitalOcean does not have such capability for its droplets. However, we may simply access files in our droplet by utilising terminal from puTTy.

Login to the DigitalOcean Droplet

Check for an email from DigitalOcean shortly after creating a new droplet, in which they have provided us with the following three items:

• IP of droplet
• Username ()
• Password

Now follow the below steps to login to the digitalocean droplet.

1. Firstly, download PuTTY for windows from https://puttyfree.com/download/
2. Then, open PuTTY.exe and type the IP address of the droplet in the host name input box, then click Open.
3. A warning popup will appear; simply click yes to proceed.
4. Then a terminal will appear, asking for our username, which we should enter.
5. Enter the password for our droplet now. Remember that when we type our password, nothing will appear on the terminal for security reasons. So don’t be alarmed, and if we need to paste a password, simply right-click and enter.
6. Finally, we’ve logged in.

If this is the first time we’ve logged in since setting up the droplet, it will prompt us to change our password for security reasons.

Login to DigitalOcean Droplet using ServerPilot

If we configured our droplet with serverpilot (which we recommend), the best way to login is to use the serverpilot username instead of the root username.

1. Firstly, launch PuTTY.
2. Then, enter our droplet’s IP address.
3. The terminal will then prompt us for our username. Enter serverpilot this time.
4. Now enter the password for the serverpilot user that we set during configuration.
5. Finally, we are logged in.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our Support team demonstrates how to use Putty on the Digitalocean platform.