Can't connect with SFTP/ Putty to Linode restored from an Image.
Hi, my linode was deleted automatically because of non payment.
And it was saved as an image.
Now when I am creating a linode with the saved image then it is not accessible from any sftp or putty terminal using the public IP.
When the Linode was up before deletion, I was using Nginx to point a domain to my public IP.
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jhartman
Linode Staff
When a Linode is deleted, its IP addresses are recycled by our system so that they can eventually be made available to other customers when new Linodes are provisioned. Unless you had redeployed your Linode within a very brief window or had been exceedingly lucky, your newly deployed Linode created with the recovery image would almost certainly have a new IP address.
As such, you will need to update your DNS records so that your hostname/FQDN includes the correct IPv4/IPv6 addresses (A and AAAA "quad-A" respectively):
Depending on how your NGINX server had been setup, you may also need to re-configure internal server/proxy settings as well:
Otherwise, SFTP relies on the SSH protocol which by uses port 22 by default. I would recommend that you review the following guide if you are having issues connecting via SSH (Secure Shell) and can help re-establish connectivity for your SFTP server: