Use the in-browser terminal
Every instance also offers a terminal you can open straight from the console, no SSH client or key management required. It's a good fit for a quick check or a one-off command; it doesn't replace native SSH access for regular work.
1. Opening a session
Open the instance in the console and click Terminal in the Connect panel. A terminal opens in the browser tab, already connected to your instance. There's no key to generate, upload, or paste. The console handles that for you.
2. How a session works
Each time you open the browser terminal, GPUwerk generates a fresh keypair just for that session. You never see it and don't need to do anything with it: it's created, used to connect, and discarded automatically. Closing the tab or ending the session ends it; opening a new session generates a new one.
3. A note on security
The session key is handled by GPUwerk's servers, briefly. The private half of that single-use keypair is sent once, over TLS, to a short-lived server-side process that exists only to relay your terminal session. It's held in memory for the life of the session, never written to disk or to logs, and destroyed when the session ends or times out. This is different from your own SSH key, which is never generated by, sent to, or seen by GPUwerk at all. See the full disclosure in our Privacy Policy.
4. Session limits
Browser terminal sessions expire after a period of inactivity or after a maximum session duration, whichever comes first. If your session ends while you're still working, just open a new one from the Connect panel.
5. Prefer native SSH?
Prefer your own SSH key with zero server involvement? Native SSH access is unchanged. See the SSH keys guide for setup and daily use.