OpenVPN + Open Registration == WIN?
We've been very busy with ByteSized VPS (more on that in a later article) over the last couple of months and because of this we didn't give our ByteSized Boxes the love it deserved. That's why today we have a little freebie for all our current and future users.
All our boxes will come with VPN-access from today on out. VPN is a way for you to conduct your internet business in total anonymity by routing all traffic on a secure connection to our servers. To use our VPN-service you will need to install and configure an OpenVPN client. We have some basic instructions on this wiki-page. Something else we decided to install for everybody is SABnzbd.
Another announce we have for you today is that from this moment on we will be having open signups for a while. We might make it permanent or just a few weeks, we don't know yet. But for now tell your friends they don't have to wait around twitter any more. Because of this we can't guarantee our "within minutes" setup time anymore, instead we will announce it on twitter if the setup is going to be longer then average.
We are also working on a new wiki-system, we are leaving the custom-made wiki for a more open wikimedia-wiki. This new wiki will hold both the articles for bytesized-vps and bytesized-hosting. Moving all entries from the old to the new wiki might take some time and will not be done in a day, so for now just use the old wiki till we moved all stuff accross. We do want to ask you that if you want to create a new page do it on the new wiki which can be found here.
More information on Bytesized-VPS will come in the following days, for now you can find a short F.A.Q. on the Wiki.
August 31st, 2010 - 18:25
Thanks for implementing OpenVPN on the existing Bytesized boxes! Do you know if it’s possible to set up server to client port forwarding through this VPN connection, and if so how to do it? Specifically, I’d like to forward an arbitrary port in the 50,000 to 65,000 range through to my local machine to seed a number of torrents. Right now I am showing as not connectable on the usual private trackers when I use this new OpenVPN setup . thanks!
September 1st, 2010 - 12:09
I think port forwarding might not be possible but I am not the expert on the subject. I will ask ps to look into this before giving a final answer.
September 2nd, 2010 - 14:47
Done and done, should be possible now via upnp :)
If you specifically want to play with it yourself, try http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/ :)
September 1st, 2010 - 07:27
Oh, what a great news! Been hoping for long time, that some seedbox provider would offer this and here we are – Bytesized did it! And it comes without extra cost – total awesomeness! Thumbs up!
September 1st, 2010 - 07:29
I’m ranting about OpenVpn here, just in case… :)
September 2nd, 2010 - 11:47
I made a small change to the wiki how to use this on linux with “Network manager” i.e. a graphical solution.
September 2nd, 2010 - 11:49
Looks great, this should make it easier for the Graphical linux users among us. Thanks :)
September 12th, 2010 - 03:29
Hi, also thanks for implementing OpenVPN. Do you know if the “enable-password-save configure option” is enabled? So that we can make our Bytesized username & password part of the config/script. If that option is already there, could someone tell me how to setup the config file to include username & password?