

Examples are DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner, Exoscale, OVH, RamNode, LunaNode, and Bandwagon Host. Mid-tier providers are less expensive than the enterprise VPS providers. Some of the mid-tier and smaller providers accept PayPal. Oracle is currently advertising an “always free” tier of services.Īll the enterprise VPS providers require you to input a credit card number so that they can eventually bill you. A fixed-cost alternative is Amazon Lightsail. After the free trial is over, they can become expensive.

Usually they offer a free trial for a limited time.

The top enterprise VPS providers are Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. We’ll mention only a few.Įnterprise VPS providers aim to provide servers reliable enough for a business to depend on. Therefore you must research possible VPS providers. But you need to rent a virtual private server, or VPS, to run the Shadowsocks server. You already have a client, which is your PC. To run Shadowsocks, you need both a client and a server. You’re going to need to do some research first. The only way you can support multiple ports with Shadowsocks-libev is to create multiple instances of Shadowsocks. If you need multiple users and ports, please install the Python, Go, or Rust version of Shadowsocks. Shadowsocks-libev does not support multiple users each on their own port. The tutorial demonstrates the set-up of a single-user Shadowsocks server. It is so efficient you can even run it on a router. This version is characterized by small memory footprint and is written in the C programming language for low CPU consumption. The version of Shadowsocks we install here is Shadowsocks-libev.
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You’ll also see how to connect to your server from a Windows client.įor ease and convenience, we’ll use a prewritten script to carry out the installation. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up your own Shadowsocks server. Shadowsocks is one of the easiest tools you can use for censorship circumvention.
