How To Setup Your Own Shadowsocks Server On Ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus

Shadowsocks is an open source socks5 proxy that can be used to bypass firewall and unblock websites. Originally developed by a Chinese called clowwindy on Github, now the application has been implemented in all kinds of programming languages such as C, C++, Go, Python and the like
Homepage:- https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
Github:- https://github.com/shadowsocks
apt install python-pip python-m2crypto -y
pip install shadowsocks
gedit /etc/shadowsocks.json
{
"server":"your_server_ip",
"server_port":8000,
"local_port":1080,
"password":"your_passwd",
"timeout":600,
"method":"aes-256-cfb"
}

Explanation of each field:
server:   your hostname or server IP (IPv4/IPv6).
server_port:  server port number.
local_port:   local port number.
password:  a password used to encrypt transfer.
timeout:    connections timeout in seconds.
method:    encryption method, “bf-cfb”, “aes-256-cfb”, “des-cfb”, “rc4”, etc. Default is table, which is not secure. “aes-256-cfb” is recommended.

To start shadowsocks server:-  sudo ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d start
netstat -tlpn
To stop shadowsocks server:-  sudo ssserver -d stop
To Restart Shadowsocks server:-  sudo ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d restart
To Check Shadowsocks log :-  less /var/log/shadowsocks.log
ssserver --help
man shadowsocks-libev

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