How to Share VPS Access with Other Users

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Collaborating Through Shared VPS Access

Sometimes you need another person to help manage your server — a developer troubleshooting an issue, a system administrator setting up your stack, or a teammate who needs to monitor things while you are away. The FREAKHOSTING sharing system lets you grant them access to your server through the control panel without giving them your login credentials. This means they get their own view of your server, with their own account and their own login. You stay in full control and can revoke their access at any time with a single click.

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How Sharing Works

The sharing system uses access tokens as a secure bridge between two accounts. Here is the flow:

1. The other person (the one who needs access) generates a sharing token from their own FREAKHOSTING account.
2. They send you the token — for example, by pasting it in a secure message.
3. You paste their token into the Sharing page on your server and click Grant Access.
4. They can now see and manage your server from their own control panel.

Why does the recipient generate the token, not the owner? This design means you never need to share your own credentials. The token links their existing account to your server. They log in with their own username and password, and your server simply appears in their panel alongside their own servers. Real-world example: You hired a freelance developer to set up Nginx on your VPS. You tell them, “Create an account at cloud.freakhosting.com, go to Account > Sharing, generate a token, and send it to me.” They send you a token like a3f8c1d2-9e7b-4a6f-b5c3-1234567890ab. You paste it on your server’s Sharing page, click Grant Access, and they are in. When the job is done, you click Remove and they are out.

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Generating an Access Token (For the Recipient)

If someone wants to receive access to your server, they first need to generate a token from their own account. Share these steps with them:

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Granting Access to Your Server (For the Server Owner)

Once you have the other person’s access token in hand:

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Managing Shared Access

The Sharing tab on the server management page shows everyone who currently has shared access to that server. From here you can:

• View all users who have been granted access, along with their account details.
• Revoke access at any time by clicking the remove button next to a user.

When you revoke access, the server disappears from the other person’s control panel immediately. They will not be able to see it, manage it, or perform any operations on it. No notification is sent automatically, so consider letting them know if it is a planned change.

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What Shared Users Can and Cannot Do

It is important to understand the boundaries of shared access: The server remains under your ownership at all times. Shared users are collaborators, not co-owners.

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Sharing Best Practices

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Account-Level vs. Server-Level Sharing

There are two Sharing tabs in the control panel, and it is easy to mix them up:

• Account > Sharing tab — This is where the recipient generates their sharing token. It is an account-level setting.
• Server > Sharing tab — This is where the server owner pastes the token to grant access to a specific server. It is a per-server setting.

Each token grants access to one server at a time. If you want someone to access three of your servers, you will enter their token on each server’s Sharing tab separately.

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