Connecting with SSH issue

Hi, I'm pretty new to website design/hosting/etc. I'm having issues SSHing into the godaddy file system, if that makes sense. I've been working to get git working with the website source files, and I'm stuck here. It seems I need SSH to set up git. The weird thing is I am able to WinSCP into my site no problem. Well, I had some difficulty with that but was eventually able to do so with the following parameters:


Hostname: website.com
Port number: 21
File protocol: FTP, no encryption
Username: username@website.com
Password: password

Now, when I try to SSH into website.com with PuTTY, I keep running into brick walls. I've enabled SSH on GoDaddy. Here's the PuTTY configuration:


Hostname: website.com
Port number: 22
Settings/Connection/Data/Auto-login username: tried both 'username' and 'username@website.com'
Settings/Connection/SSH/Auth/private key file: tried both with and without RSA file downloaded from GoDaddy

Whenever this is run, I get a PuTTY Fatal Error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection. The log info from the PuTTY window is as follows (website and IP changed):


2016-11-02 12:34:12    Looking up host "website.com"
2016-11-02 12:34:12    Connecting to xxx.xxx.xx.xxx port 22
2016-11-02 12:34:19    Server unexpectedly closed network connection

Any ideas why WinSCP would work but SSH wouldn't?

Connecting with SSH issue

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