Sunday School: Steemit's Easiest Anonymous VPS Setup Guide

VPS

What's a VPS (Virtual Private Server) and why do you want one?

• Development & Testing
• Privacy
• Freedom

Selection

There are MANY to choose from but, I went with ChunkHost

They offer basic VPS services with easy sign-up & multiple payment options.

(One of which being BTC)
Note: If you prefer the option to pay in SBD, check out @privex

Their most modest offer comes in @ $60USD a Year. For $5/month, users receive:

• 1GB RAM
• 20GB SSD storage
• 1 CPU cores
• 2TB Transfer/month

Sign up couldn't be more simple …

1. Enter:
   1. Email
   2. Password
2. Click the "Sign-Up" button
   
3. Click the "Add Chunk" button
   
4. Enter hostname
5. Select OS
6. Click the "Create your new chunk" button
   
7. Select Bitcoin
8. Make Payment
9. Click the "Okay, I sent the Bitcoins!" button
   
10. Wait for Approval

I pretty much hate 3rd party offers on steemit but, I'll leave this here as an option if some kind folks out there would like to help fund my Steemit development efforts ...

(No official project ties but, I plan on making regular contributions toward the project)

If you use this referral code:
https://chunkhost.com/r/48109

I'll send you 2 SBD!
(If this post gains in popularity significantly, I will likely increase the rewards accordingly)

To redeem the offer, find me in chat and we'll walk through a quick verification process!

Login

Using ssh (putty is handy if using Windows)
$ ssh root@yourIP

First Steps

• Setup Non-Privledged User
  sudo adduser username; sudo usermod -aG sudo username

• Enable Unattended Security Updates
  sudo apt-get install -y unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges
sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
l1="APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists \"1\";"
l2="APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade \"1\";"
echo $l1 | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
echo $l2 | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

• Scheduled Daily Updates
  echo '30 00 * * * root (apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade) > /dev/null' | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab

• Weekly Reboot
  echo '01 00 * * 0 root (apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade) > /dev/null /sbin/shutdown -r ' | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab

Do the best job hardening your time/money allow!

Next Steps?

• Steemit's Easiest Personal VPN Setup Guide
• Steemit's Easiest Witness Setup Guide
• Steemit's Easiest Peerplays Witness Guide

All questions, comments, corrections, love and hate are welcome!
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