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Connecting to your Linux VPS

After signing up for a VPS, your provider should send you your login details anywhere from a couple minutes to 24 hours after signing up.  Anything longer than 24 hours and you should contact your provider to see what the hold up is.

Now that you've received your details you'll need connect to it via SSH if you have a Linux VPS:

If you're running on Windows you'll need to download PuTTY which can be found at this link:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

If you're running on OSX, you'll be able to connect using the Terminal application found the /Applications/Utilites/