
So, you can go ahead and start the damn thing now./sfs2x-service start rwxr-xr-x 1 tom staff 5.7K RELEASE-NOTES.htmlĭrwxr-xr-x 9 tom staff 306B third-party-licenses rwxr-xr-x 1 tom staff 71K LicenseAgreement.pdf rw-r-r- 1 tom staff 48M SFS2X_unix_2_0_1_64.tar.gzĭrwxr-xr-x 9 tom staff 306B SmartFoxServer2X we're in.ĭownload with wget, then tar xzvf and extract it. Ssh -i SmartFox.pem is nearly right, except as it's an Ubuntu instance, you want to ssh -i SmartFox.pem let's do that. Use this command if needed:Ĭonnect to your instance using its Public DNS. Your key file must not be publicly viewable for SSH to work. The wizard automatically detects the key you used to launch the instance. Locate your private key file (SmartFox.pem). Select your new server instance, and right click it and you get this menu.

This is the firewall of Amazon EC2.Īdd inbound rules for SSH, HTTP and HTTPS. Keep this safe, because if you lose it, you've effectively lost the master key to your new server. When you click "Download Keypair" your browser will save the private key. You now need to create a SSH key, and name that too. When you click to create an instance you get this chooser: This all assumes you know a bit about linux, but if you create your first instance using Ubuntu Linux 12.04 64-bit server, it'll make everything a bit easier! There's a metric boatload of AWS 101 tutorials on the internet if you do some googling about.

Once you've got an account, go here and start an EC2 instance. You'll need to provide them with a credit/debit card number, but they won't charge you as long as you keep within the free tier resource limits. They're a pure webhost, and you need somewhere you can configure and install Java, and the SmartFox server. I'm 99.99% certain that you can't use the free package at 000webhost to do this. You'll need to get a VPS, or at least an Amazon EC2 cloud instance to run this on.
