Oracle VPS
Register to oracle vps get those free vps, London server is full try other continent, you can also unlock premium by paying ~100 bucks and it will get insta returned and just use free resources for best freemium experience, but looks like oracle lowered hdd disk size – its no more 200gb free like they promised. Step by step instruction table. I will give several youtubers links how to setup Oracle vps. Use sfotware putty to open ssh or use cmd or downlaod terminal from microsoft store. You follow this table from up to down, step by step. Some commands you need to skip like userdel as you will just delete what you have created and you will need to repeat some steps.
| #COMMANDS | #COMMENTS |
| Name: inst_## | Instance name |
| Image: canonical ubuntu 20.04 | Best for several smartnodes in 1 vps |
| Shape: ampere vm.standard.A1.Flex (always free) | |
| Public key + Private key: download | Download for puttygen Use only private key |
| Boot volume (default 46.6 GB) | 46.6*4 = 186.4 GB total (and still it might not be fully free) |
| generate ppk file | Use software Puttygen and get that ppk file |
| ubuntu@ip | Default login trough ssh |
Update Ubuntu
| sudo su – | root (you need root privilages) |
| sudo bash | root |
| sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y | upgrade |
Hestia CP
| Ideaspot blog | YouTuber ideaspot, more detailed instructions |
| sudo su – sudo su | root //what is this -? alternatyve root. |
| wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/release/install/hst-install.sh | Install hestia script |
| bash hst-install.sh –interactive no —email YourEmail@gmail.com —password password(case sensitive) -hostname hcp.example.com (your domain name) -f | change emaila username: admin change domain (activate from namecheap or other registrar) |
| sudo reboot | restart |
| Namecheap: “A record” “hcp” “server-ip” | find namecheap domain name setting and just add – a record hcp subdomain and oracle server ip |
| Website check: hcp.yourdomain.com:8083 |
4GB SWAP
(If you run out of ram, you need swap or system will crash, win equivalent = system memory it will use hard disk to store ram)
| sudo su | run on root |
| swapoff -a | disable swap file |
| sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=4000 status=progress | make it size almost 4 gb |
| sudo echo “/swapfile swap swap auto 0 0” | tee -a /etc/fstab | make swappiness |
| sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10 | make ubuntu only use swap if really needed |
| sudo echo vm.swappiness = 10 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf |
Oracle instance inside ubuntu
| sudo nano /etc/iptables/rules.v4 | |
| -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 8083 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 10226 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 15168 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state –state NEW -m tcp –dport 15420 -j ACCEPT | put it before oracle settings Later for several smartnodes in single VPS remember to change RPC ports 15168 Bitoreum port 15420 Yerbas port 10226 Raptoreum port |
| sudo iptables-restore </etc/iptables/rules.v4 | You told oracle vps, and you put previously oracles firewall to be open. But now needs now an aplication that uses this port, to open up. |
Fail to Ban (after installing hcp)
| sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local | |
| [sshd] enabled = true port = 22 filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 3 | after 3 authentication fails you get 10 minute timeout (I think) |
Create user (repeat for different smartnodes)
| sudo adduser raptor | Create user raptor to install smartnode |
| exit | To get out of user |
| sudo adduser raptor sudo | Add to admin group |
| sudo visudo | Includedor /etc/sudoers.d |
| #includedir /etc/sudoers.d raptor ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL | No more password, but it has to be in correct config line |
| su raptor | Switch user to raptor |
| sudo apt update | Try if works without password |
| userdel -r raptor | If need to delete, remember to remove visudo |
Smartnode
| su raptor | Switch to raptor user |
| ls | File manager |
| mkdir raptoreum-1.3.17.05 | Create a folder where you will put all smartnode files |
| cd raptoreum-1.3.17.05 wget https://github.com/Raptor3um/raptoreum/releases/download/1.3.17.05/raptoreum-arm64-1.3.17.05.tar.gz | [Check version] |
| ls | again |
| tar -xf raptoreum-arm64-1.3.17.05.tar.gz | unzip |
| ls | again |
| rm checksums.txt | Check cheksums than delete |
| rm raptoreum-arm64-1.3.17.05.tar.gz | Remove zip file |
| ls | Again check if files are removed |
| sudo cp raptoreumd /usr/bin/raptoreumd | Inside folder |
| sudo cp raptoreum-cli /usr/bin/raptoreum-cli | |
| cd | |
| tail -f ~/.raptoreumcore/debug.log | Use another SSH window Use raptor user to tail log file |
| tail -f ~/.bitoreumcore/debug.log | |
| raptoreumd | Start smartnode |
| raptoreum-cli getblockcount | Check how many blocks has sinced (ubuntu), also needs to sync some before? |
| raptoreum-cli stop | Stop smartnode |
Wallet Commands
| protx quick_setup “123d7041232d481236d1f3f72abb326555cac9808c574d012358338c0a4123” “1” “123.123.123.123:10226” “RU3rcYutb7af5uijmHCi9RZJMpcif6pDqU” | Transaction to myself with colateral (sum has to be exacrlt 1.8 milllion) smartnode outputs in debug console also I will get 1 or 5 or whatever number server ip address listaddressbalances (raptoreum wallet command) choose not collateral, with some coin |
| CFG file generated | When you use your raptoreum wallet on windows, find the cfg file generated location. Copy paste to inside oracle vps, or you get pose ban |
Check if ports are open
| https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ 132.145.69.134 : 10226 132.145.31.11 : 10226 140.238.90.60 : 10226 | Check port if open |
Old School Startup
(when vps accidently restarts, you want to start your smartnode or you lose your income lol…)
| crontab -e Select an editor. To change later, run ‘select-editor’. 1. /bin/nano <—- easiest (really easy) 2. /usr/bin/vim.basic 3. /usr/bin/mcedit 4. /usr/bin/vim.tiny 5. /bin/ed | Oldschool startup |
| @reboot /usr/bin/raptoreumd | Write this Replace @ to # to ignore And use service as a 100% crash guarantee |
| htop | Check if raptoreumd is running under: su raptor |
Service startup
More powerfull way to restart smartnode, runs a service, even if you try to crash it manually it will auto start again, infinite loop, I don’t even know how to stop it as I never needed it, but if you need it than google or gpt for answer, I never bothered as my goal is to run the smartnode forever
| su raptor | |
| tail -f ~/.raptoreumcore/debug.log | Tail to see if restarts on new ssh window |
| raptoreum-cli stop | Stop before creating service. User raptor |
| sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/raptoreum.service | Create new service |
| ############################################################## ## Raptoreum Smartnode Systemd service always alive ## ############################################################## [Unit] Description=Raptoreum Node Daemon After=network.target [Service] Type=forking User=raptor RuntimeDirectory=/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore #PIDFile=/run/raptoreum.pid Restart=on-failure ExecStart=/usr/bin/raptoreumd -datadir=/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore/ -conf=/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore/raptoreum.conf -daemon ExecStop=/usr/bin/raptoreum-cli -datadir=/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore/ -conf=/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore/raptoreum.conf stop # Recommended hardening # Provide a private /tmp and /var/tmp. PrivateTmp=true # Mount /usr, /boot/ and /etc read-only for the process. ProtectSystem=full # Disallow the process and all of its children to gain # new privileges through execve(). NoNewPrivileges=true # Use a new /dev namespace only populated with API pseudo devices # such as /dev/null, /dev/zero and /dev/random. PrivateDevices=true # Deny the creation of writable and executable memory mappings. MemoryDenyWri teExecute=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target | Copy and paste, it was hard work copying from yerbas youtuber and it works. I have tested on my smartnodes, I also changed for raptoreum instead of yerbas, if you need yerbas you will need to change everything that is related to raptoreum to yerbas (use like notepad find and replace raptoreum and raptor to yerbas also you need to have yerbas username created and you can use this for other smartnodes too, but again you will need to change those names coresponding to their own smartnodes. I think I have bolded all the names you need to change) |
| echo “pid=/run/raptoreum.pid” >>/home/raptor/.raptoreumcore/raptoreum.conf | Will auto write into config file |
| nano ~/.raptoreumcore/raptoreum.conf | or just type: |
| pid=/run/raptoreum.pid | At the end of raptoreum.conf file |
| sudo systemctl daemon-reload | to reload system services |
| sudo systemctl enable raptoreum | to start raptoreum services, if it works ok, if not – redo steps, there is somwere mistakes |
| sudo systemctl start raptoreum | Starts raptoreum service |
| raptoreum-cli stop | test if works |
Congrats on your free Raptoreum, Bitoreum, Yerbas, Neoxa etc… nodes … No more paying any fees to pecunia, power bills, inodez and so on… Also you can now create websites on same VPS and run WordPress or any other site at the same time lol.
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