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Restrict SSH and SFTP to your own addresses

Close the SSH port to the world and keep it open for your office, your developers and our platform.

SSH and SFTP are protected by keys and fail2ban, but closing the port to everyone except known addresses removes almost all attacks on it.

  1. Add your addresses first

    Security, Firewall, Allow an IP or range on port ssh: your office, your home, your developers. Find yours at a site like whatismyip.

  2. Restrict

    Press Restrict SSH to allowed IPs. Our platform always keeps access, so the console keeps working.

  3. Test

    Connect with your SFTP client from an allowed address.

If you restrict SSH before adding your own address, you and your developers lose SFTP and SSH until a rule is added. You can add it from the console at any time.

To open SSH to everyone again, press the same button (it then says open).

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