How to Extract large files using SSH on Shared Hosting or VPS

SSH stands for Secure Shell. It is the protocol to connect securely to a remote server. This article will guide you to extract the file using SSH.

What do you need to prepare?

Access to the Hosting control panel
FTP login information
SSH Clients, in this example I use putty, download here
Upload the file to the hosting with the FTP client or File Manager to the public_html root directory. In this tutorial, I uploaded the file named website.zip.

Step 1 – Activate SSH and get SSH access information

Visit Hosting Control Panel member area. Open the control panel of your hosting account related, navigate to Access SSH or SSH Access.

Here you will need to enable SSH or Manage SSH Key and Generate a new Public Key. You need download this key for using with Putty.

Some hosting you will get the following information:

SSH IP

SSH Port

SSH Username

SSH Password

You don’t need to do anything with VPS, Only need to login SSH and work with it.

Step 2 – Connect to the hosting account using SSH clients

At this point, you already have Putty software at the Preparatory Step, and SSH access information at Step 1

Open the putty, enter 2 parameters in step 1 is SSH IP and SSH Port and press the Open button

Another window pops up, and you will need to enter the SSH Username after the login as well as your account as the example, in case your SSH Username will be a different name.

After entering the SSH Username, press enter, where you will find that you need to enter your SSH password and password as well as the FTP password in the Preparatory Step you already have. Enter the password and press enter.

NOTE! When you’re done, just fill in and hit enter, and you will not see the mouse pointer appear on the screen.

Step 3 – Go to the public_html directory and extract the file using the command

Do not be afraid, just under the very simple command you follow the steps that proceed.

Step 3.1 – Access to the public_html directory

Type the following command to access the public_html directory (because the website.zip file, as you said in the preparation step, has been uploaded to this directory).