Setting up a new VPS server

These are the things I did to setup new VPS instances on Digital Ocean and ChicagoVPS Update the machine sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Set locales sudo locale-gen sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales add user sudo adduser tutysra # give sudo previliges sudo visudo tutysra ALL=(ALL) ALL Install Git sudo apt-get install git Install sun java sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer Install Tor for screen scrapping sudo apt-get install tor sudo /etc/init. [Read More]