Web Terminal

Web terminal

The web terminal gives you a full interactive shell on your hosting right in the browser – no SSH client needed.

Where to find it

In the customer panel, open the hosting detail, go to the Development tab and its Deployments section. At the very bottom there's a Web terminal strip with an Open terminal button that opens the terminal in a new tab. This is the only place the terminal can be opened from – there's no link to it from the hosting overview.

The Deployments section (and with it the web terminal) is only available when:

• the hosting has SSH enabled,
• you have deployments permission,
• the hosting isn't on the business-card website plan – that plan doesn't have a Development tab at all.

How the connection works

1. The panel requests a one-time authentication token from the server
2. Your browser opens a WebSocket connection using that token
3. The server starts /bin/bash as a login shell on your hosting, running as your SSH user
4. Terminal input and output are streamed over the WebSocket

The terminal runs as the same user you connect with over SSH – no commands are blocked or restricted, you have full access to whatever that user is allowed to do on the hosting.

Token renewal, keep-alive and idle timeout

• The token is valid for 15 minutes and is automatically renewed roughly 3 minutes before it expires, without interrupting the session
• The server keeps the connection alive with a ping every 15 seconds
• After 30 minutes of inactivity (no input at all) the session is closed automatically

Practical notes

• The terminal is great for quick tasks – checking logs, one-off commands, git operations outside the Deployments section
• Closing the tab or hitting the idle limit ends the session; just open the terminal again from the same strip
• For longer sessions or multiple windows, a regular SSH client is more convenient – find your connection details on the Services tab (see SSH Access)