Last month the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 4 cable was cut near Egypt causing a massive degradation of internet speed in India. For me several websites including the world’s 6th popular website Wikipedia didn’t load at all. And to make matters worse I wasn’t able to access my own blog :'( as it was located in Dallas (so traffic had to pass through damaged cable). So I quickly setup VPN server on an AWS micro instance running Linux (Ubuntu) and accessed everything I wanted, so here I am writing this article for the benefit of all netizens. To create a similar type of VPN server in windows read this tutorial. You’ll find a lot of articles on the internet with the similar topic but in this article I’ll keep the configuration part as short as possible setting up only the bare minimum to get a PPTP VPN server running in the time it takes to make noodles!Continue Reading…
How to setup an unmanaged Debian server
So you’ve bought a shiny new VPS or dedicated unmanaged server to cut costs on hosting but don’t know how to begin ? Read this post to make this easier. This tutorial will cover the instructions for a basic setup of a Debian unmanaged VPS or dedicated server. The following are covered in this article
- Configuring the Timezone
- Selecting locales
- Creating a sudo user
- Securing SSH
- Adding firewall rules
The first task is to update the apt database and check if any installed packages can be upgraded.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
