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How to setup your own VPN Server
 

How to setup your own VPN server anywhere!
Before I start my tutorial I would like to say thank you to aspkin such a great ebook and website.

Using commercial VPN’s on eBay is always a risky business as many thousands of people could potentially be sharing an IP address with you.

The best way of getting around this is to create your own VPN SERVER. This guarantees you are the only person using the IP address and that eBay has not RED Flagged the IP address.

Believe it or not, it is no more expensive to create your own VPN than renting one from a company.

Total Cost: Between $5 - $20 per month depending on the location.
Difficulty: LOW
Time: 10mins

Step One: Get a VPS
Get a Linux XEN VPS with centOS (centos 5.4 is the best). A VPS is shortened for Virtual Private Server. It's not a whole machine (too costly!) but one portion of a machine. A 256 Ram VPS will be sufficient for setting up your VPN.

Pick your VPS service in the location you will be trading. E.g. if your selling on eBay USA select a VPS in the USA somewhere. (HINT: Make sure the VPS is within about 100 miles of the address registered on the eBay and PayPal account)

DO NOT BUY A VPS WITH ‘OPENVZ’ INSTEAD OF ‘XEN’….IT MAY BE CHEAPER BUT IT WONT WORK!

Step Two: Download Putty software

Putty is SSH software that allows you to log on to your remote VPS.
You can download putty at: PuTTY Download Page

Step Three: Log on to you VPS with putty
You will be issued with the following information from your VPS Provider:

VPS IP Address
SSH Username (normally ‘root’)
SSH Password

Open putty and type the ip address provided by your VPS provider into the ‘host name’ box and click ‘open’

A black MS Dos Style window will appear
Type Your SSH user name in and press enter
Type in your password and press enter (when you type your password no characters will display but your password is being captured….so don’t worry)

Step four: Install VPN Software
Type the following command line:
wget https://breakwall.net/promo/pptpd.sh

and press enter

then type in the following command line:
bash pptpd.sh

and press enter

you will then be issued with a VPN username and VPN password

Step Five: Connect to your VPN

Use the Ip address provided to you by your VPS as the Host name and the username and password provided in the Putty Window

Thanks for share Mearich and welcome.

I use VPS for Ebay and PP, I am not too technically minded so I generally opt for the Windows Server VPS. Windows server VPS are generally slow for surfing, plus they are more expensive than the others.

I will look into this, might pick your brains along the way

how many ips you getting for the basic hosting price?

I currently get 5 with my VPS service and then it is only $0.50 per extra IP. But i limit the total ip's per VPS supplier to 10 as they all start with the same numbers.

Its worth while doing, if you have any questions just PM me.

why not setup your own VPN using VMWare? if you have some knowledge of UNIX you can spoof your IP to what ever you'd like... Plus the MAC will not be the same for each virtual machine... just my 2 cents =/

^thanks for sharing info

check out this thread..

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/subscri...c-address.html

Thanks 'idol

Can you elaborate on this for the people with no knowledge of VMware?, hard to spoof the IP without Unix knowledge?

Mearich I have tried this, when the MSDOS window opens there is a green cursor that does not move when typing, not even for username. Any suggestions?

Do these VPS and VMWare methods work for Mac OS?
Anything for Mac?

Wow this is some next level stuff. Thank you for sharing. I will try this.

Op has done a disappearing act unfortunately, I can't get it to work

whats up boys, what do you need help with

considering how i found the most full proof way into making each and every account made stealthy look 10000% legit

And what is that?

Msdos window just has a green prompt, wont do anything

run us thru it, dummies guide

Talk the talk then :deadhorse:

That`s also the name of Rihanna`s new release...Talk that Talk - good beat, trash lyrics.

Got two free trials of VPS that are non-windows, have no clue how to set em up for web browsing :(

Where did you get them from?
Works on Macs?

Cloud next and Site5. I would imagine so