Tutorial: OVH Cloud - Create a proxy image

Step 1: Connect to your new project

Go to OVH dashboard and select your new project.

Step 2: Create a new server

1. Click on Infrastructure
2. Click on Add
3. Click on Add a server

Step 3: Change the configuration of server

1. Change the type of server to VPS-SSD-1 (cheapest)
2. Change the distribution to Ubuntu
3. Change region to GRA1 (or another if you want)
4. Change the SSH key to mykey
5. Click on Launch now

Step 4: Get login information

When the instance is ready:

1. Click on the v on the top right corner
2. Click on Login information

Step 5: Connect to the instance

Remember the SSH command.

Step 6: Install the proxy

Connect to the instance and install proxy:

sudo apt-get install curl

and:

curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -

and:

sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs

and:

curl --silent --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabienvauchelles/scrapoxy/master/tools/install/proxy.js | sudo tee /root/proxy.js > /dev/null

and:

curl --silent --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabienvauchelles/scrapoxy/master/tools/install/proxyup.sh | sudo tee /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh > /dev/null

and:

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh

and:

sudo update-rc.d proxyup.sh defaults

and:

sudo /etc/init.d/proxyup.sh start

Step 7: Create a backup

Go back on the OVH project dashboard:

1. Click on the v on the top right corner
2. Click on Create a backup

Step 8: Start the backup

1. Enter the snapshot name forward-proxy
2. Click on Take a snapshot

You need to wait 10 minutes to 1 hour.