Sunday School: Steemit's Easiest Anonymous VPS Setup Guide

VPS

What's a VPS (Virtual Private Server) and why do you want one?

Development & Testing
Privacy
Freedom

Selection

There are MANY to choose from but, I went with ChunkHost

They offer basic VPS services with easy sign-up & multiple payment options.

(One of which being BTC)
Note: If you prefer the option to pay in SBD, check out @privex

Their most modest offer comes in @ $60USD a Year. For $5/month, users receive:

1GB RAM
20GB SSD storage
1 CPU cores
2TB Transfer/month

Enter:
1. Email
2. Password
Click the "Sign-Up" button
Click the "Add Chunk" button
Enter hostname
Select OS
Click the "Create your new chunk" button
Select Bitcoin
Make Payment
Click the "Okay, I sent the Bitcoins!" button
Wait for Approval

I pretty much hate 3rd party offers on steemit but, I'll leave this here as an option if some kind folks out there would like to help fund my Steemit development efforts ...

(No official project ties but, I plan on making regular contributions toward the project)

If you use this referral code:

https://chunkhost.com/r/48109

I'll send you 2 SBD!

(If this post gains in popularity significantly, I will likely increase the rewards accordingly)

To redeem the offer, find me in chat and we'll walk through a quick verification process!

Login

Using ssh (putty is handy if using Windows)
$ ssh root@yourIP

First Steps

Setup Non-Privledged User
sudo adduser username; sudo usermod -aG sudo username
Enable Unattended Security Updates
sudo apt-get install -y unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges
sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
l1="APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists \"1\";"
l2="APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade \"1\";"
echo $l1 | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
echo $l2 | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
Scheduled Daily Updates
echo '30 00 * * * root (apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade) > /dev/null' | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab
Weekly Reboot
echo '01 00 * * 0 root (apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade) > /dev/null /sbin/shutdown -r ' | sudo tee -a /etc/crontab