
usermod -aG sudo anyName Disable Root Login We need to give our new user root privileges. After entering the password just skip other prompts by repeatedly pressing enter. You will be asked to enter few details about the new user including the password. Update the packages list apt-get update Create a new userĪdd new user by following command in the console.

Replace remote_host with the IP of your Server. Linux and mac users can access ssh using console or terminal.Ĭommand for linux and mac: ssh remote_host

Launch PuTTY and enter your server IP and user credentials when prompted in the console. Find them and also note down your server IP. Your VPS credentials will be given on the creation page and emailed to you. For this purpose windows users can use PuTTY. It is an SSH client for windows. If you have never setup a server, steps for setting a server on digital ocean are covered in a post on our site.Īfter you have successfully created your VPS instance you need SSH access to the server. Choose a server that is closer to you, for instance users in Asia can select Singapore or servers in Tokyo, servers located on West coast of USA also offers low latency which means better speed and stable connectivity. Setting up your own shadowsocks Serverįirst you need a virtual private server(VPS), you can easily buy it from vultr or digitalocean, both offer inexpensive VPS servers starting from $3.50 and $5.00 respectively. I observe a significant bandwidth increase for the upload than the limit my ISP has assigned me, so sometimes you can use it to increase your bandwidth. The programmer was reportedly forced to let go of the project by the authorities in China but since then many individuals have picked up the project and various shadowsocks versions have been released. The traffic looks like normal https traffic and thus it is harder to block. It is widely used in China to bypass China’s Great Firewall.

Shadowsocks is an opensource proxy created by a Chinese programmer on github by the profile name ‘Clowwindy’. (Last Updated On: November 14, 2018) What is Shadowsocks
