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+id: 2-run-ipfs-on-a-vps
+date: 2015-11-02
+title: Run IPFS latest on a VPS
+author: Kyle Drake
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+
+The best way to provide content using [IPFS](https://ipfs.io) is to run your own IPFS node. You can do this by running an IPFS node on your personal computer, but that will only work as long as your computer is running. For users running mostly from laptops or with bandwidth constraints, it is useful to run IPFS nodes in a datacenter, and pinning the content there too. This ensures your content is replicated, online, and available to other nodes on the network.
+
+VPS instances provided by [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com/), [Ramnode](http://ramnode.com/), [Linode](https://www.linode.com/), [Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/) and many other providers allow you to quickly setup your own Linux server with the reliability of a managed dedicated server without the full cost. This is a quick guide to setting up your own dedicated IPFS node on a VPS. We'll be using [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/) 14.04LTS 64-bit for the example.
+
+First, let's get the packages we'll need to install IPFS:
+
+    apt-get update
+    apt-get install unzip wget
+
+Now you can download the latest build of IPFS from the [install page](https://ipfs.io/docs/install/). We'll be using Linux x86_64:
+
+    wget https://gobuilder.me/get/github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/cmd/ipfs/ipfs_master_linux-amd64.zip
+    unzip ipfs_master_linux-amd64.zip
+    cp ipfs/ipfs /usr/local/bin/
+
+It's usually not a good idea to run a public-facing service as root. So we'll create a user account to run IPFS in and switch to it:
+
+    adduser ipfs
+    su ipfs
+
+First let's initialize the IPFS config:
+
+    ipfs init
+
+This generates a basic IPFS config file for your user.
+
+IPFS works by actively seeking nearby nodes to connect to, which is a good thing for performance and availability, particularly in home and office networks. This causes addresses in the networks to be dialed that may not be there. Unfortunately, some VPS providers incorrectly classify this as suspicious activity, and some even have blocked nodes for doing so. To avoid this, let's add two things to the config file:
+
+    # 1. disable mDNS discovery
+    ipfs config --json Discovery.MDNS.Enabled false
+
+    # 2. filter out local network addresses
+    ipfs config --json Swarm.AddrFilters '[
+      "/ip4/10.0.0.0/ipcidr/8",
+      "/ip4/100.64.0.0/ipcidr/10",
+      "/ip4/169.254.0.0/ipcidr/16",
+      "/ip4/172.16.0.0/ipcidr/12",
+      "/ip4/192.0.0.0/ipcidr/24",
+      "/ip4/192.0.0.0/ipcidr/29",
+      "/ip4/192.0.0.8/ipcidr/32",
+      "/ip4/192.0.0.170/ipcidr/32",
+      "/ip4/192.0.0.171/ipcidr/32",
+      "/ip4/192.0.2.0/ipcidr/24",
+      "/ip4/192.168.0.0/ipcidr/16",
+      "/ip4/198.18.0.0/ipcidr/15",
+      "/ip4/198.51.100.0/ipcidr/24",
+      "/ip4/203.0.113.0/ipcidr/24",
+      "/ip4/240.0.0.0/ipcidr/4"
+    ]'
+
+Now you're ready to start IPFS!
+
+    ipfs daemon &
+
+Give it a minute to connect to some other IPFS nodes, and then test that it's working by running a quick test:
+
+    echo "hello world" | ipfs add
+
+This will return the hash `QmT78zSuBmuS4z925WZfrqQ1qHaJ56DQaTfyMUF7F8ff5o`. Now run this command to make sure that your IPFS node has pinned this content:
+
+    ipfs refs local | grep QmT78zSuBmuS4z925WZfrqQ1qHaJ56DQaTfyMUF7F8ff5o
+
+And you should see a response with the same hash.
+
+If you want to have IPFS boot at startup, add an entry to `/etc/rc.local`. You can run this command as root to quickly add it:
+
+    sed -i -e '$i /bin/su ipfs -c "/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon &"\n' /etc/rc.local
+
+This process will simplify in the future when IPFS starts being packaged with distributions (`apt-get install ipfs`). But until then, this will get you started with IPFS experimentation on your own server. Run `ipfs help` to get a list of things you can do, and let us know if you run into any issues.