VPN Setup Guide – One click L2TP VPN Server or IPSEC VPN Server Setup

In this video you will learn how to setup your own private L2TP to IPSEC VPN Server using a KVM VPS or a Dedicated Server. I’ve used a Ubuntu 20 based installation but this same script or command even works on Debian, this is a fully automated setup for a VPN Server. I’ve used a Budget KVM VPS from https://hosteons.com/kvm_vps.php for this tutorial but this same script should work with any other providers’s VPS as long as it’s a KVM VPS and the OS is Debian or Ubuntu. This is a one click or one command setup to have your VPN Server ready almost instantly.

Command to install your L2TP VPN server is:

wget https://git.io/vpnsetup -O vpnsetup.sh && sudo sh vpnsetup.sh

NOTE: Please make sure to backup your data before running this script as hosteons will not be responsible for any data loss.

Dallas Budget Gigabit KVM VPS Launch

We already launched our Premium Ryzen KVM VPS in Dallas last month, but as promised we have now even launched our Budget Gigabit KVM VPS in Dallas, Texas

All our Budget Gigabit KVM VPS Nodes have following or similar specs:

Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 (Or Similar minimum, 2.5 Ghz)

128 GB RAM

RAID 10 SSD

10 Gbps Network Port (Some of our VPS Nodes are still on 1 Gbps Port, but they are in process of being upgraded to 10Gbps Port for more info Click Here)

Free IPv6 /64

IPv4 as per your package and option to add upto 16 additional IPv4 IP

Free Windows 2019 License with annual payment

VPS Control Panel

Custom ISO Support

Full RDNS control

Reboot and Reinstall Support

Free DDOS Protection

Moreover our VPS services are activated instantly upon payment and we have 24×7 Real Human Support

Also if you want to check our Dallas Network check out our Network Looking Glass at https://lg.dal.hosteons.com

Some major FREE Upgrades coming soon to Budget Gigabit KVM VPS

We have been constantly trying to improve and upgrade quality of our services and now we are doing one more major upgrade to our Budget Gigabit KVM VPS, after this upgrade even our Budget KVM VPS will performa like Premium VPS:

1) Retiring all our AMD Opteron VPS Nodes and upgrading to Intel E5 based Nodes with same RAID 10 SSD Drives (these nodes will be hosting almost half the number of VPS on them compared to our old VPS Nodes)

2) Upgrade VPS Node Port from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps, this will improve network performance a lot.

Moreover we would like to inform all our Legacy 100 Mbps unmetered VPS clients that since we are now upgrading server port to 10Gbps, we will be strictly enforcing our Acceptable Usage Policy to avoid any bandwidth abuse, because it affects performance of all other VPS on the same node. We have found a lot of Unmetered VPS users using upto 50 TB per month on 100 Mbps Port, which clearly means that these VPS were using more then 100 Mbps 24×7 (yes it happens sometimes, traffic shaping does not work 100% accurately on VPS Nodes), we are rate limiting such VPS to 10 Mbps to avoid further abuse and to avoid of quality of service going down for our other clients, though if such user wants to switch to our Gigabit KVM VPS packages, just submit a support ticket we will do it. Moreover if you are on 100 Mbps Legacy package and if you are not abuser and following our Acceptable Usage Policy you can continue to use your VPS without issues and won’t find any kind of cap on your network. Most of these Bandwidth abusers appear to be commercial VPN/Proxy providers which is already against our Terms of Service, so if we find good proof that you are using it for commercial VPN/Proxy your services will be terminated (it does not matter if you are on unmetered or metered plan, but we don’t allow commercial vpn/proxy providers on our network)

We have lots of VPS nodes so this whole process will take almost 1 month or may be even more, but we are planning to start this process within next 3-4 days. This is how we have planned:

1) We will add new VPS nodes to same network as our current VPS Nodes (on 1 Gbps Port) then we will migrate all VPS from old VPS nodes to new VPS nodes, there will be no data loss or IP change, but you will experience downtime of few minutes usually less than 10 minutes.

2) Once VPS are migrated to new nodes, we will have to shutdown the VPS nodes and physically move them to the RACK with 10 Gbps network/switch, this migration can take 1-2 hour, as it involves shutting down vps nodes, physically UNRACK the VPS Node from old RACK and move it to the new RACK and plugin all cables, then route the IP ranges to the new switch/RACK and booting all the VPS nodes back online.

But once this done you will experience much better network performance as well as CPU performance, overall quality of VPS will improve a lot.

We will be doing this across all our locations – Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Jacksonville.

We will be even starting Budget Gigabit VPS Service in Dallas soon, since this will be a new node, we will start it with 10Gbps Port

We will email all clients about it before we start this migration.

For regular update on this upgrade kindly bookmark this link https://my.hosteons.com/announcements/217/Some-major-FREE-Upgrades-coming-soon-to-our-Budget-Gigabit-KVM-VPS.html as we will be posting future updates about this upgrade on above post

What’s happing at Hosteons ? So many changes ?

2020 has been a crazy year for everybody all over the globe, but we at Hosteons have been working behind the scenes to bring new services, service upgrades, server upgrades, and what not.

Here is what’s new with Hosteons:

Premium Ryzen VPS:

We have launched a Premium Range of Ryzen based KVM VPS in two locations – Los Angeles and Dallas (More locations coming soon). Ryzen CPU along with NVME Drives takes your VPS experience to a different level as these are very very fast CPU along with super fast NVME Drives it just makes you feel like as if you are using a Super Fast Dedicated Server with ease of singing a VPS. Our Ryzen VPS Nodes are connected to 10Gbps network instead of our regular 1 Gbps Network to even make your network lightning fast.

Direct Admin Switch:

Due to constant price increase by cPanel we decided to even switch to Direct Admin for our shared web hosting and reseller web hosting and we even took the opportunity to even switch our web server from Apache to Lite Speed along with Kernel Care for reboot less updates, Cloud Linux for stable hosting experience and even more secure with CageFS implementation. We even added Imunify to it to make sure all sites on the server malware free. Not only this now we are using RAID 10 SSD instead of normal HDD for even faster websites. We are now even taking offsite backups every alternate day.

So here are some of the new features of our Shared Web Hosting and Reseller Web Hosting:

  1. Direct Admin Control Panel
  2. Lite Speed Web Server for ultra fast websites
  3. CloudLinux for Stable and Secure Web Hosting
  4. Imunify for Malware and Virus Free Hosting
  5. KernelCare for Rebootless updates hence basically services with no downtime
  6. RAID 10 SSD Based Storage for ultra fast disk access and very fast websites
  7. Regular backups just in case if you ever want to restore your data.
  8. 24×7 Support – We understand how important your website is for you hence we have 24×7 support

These are so many features and benefits not possible to mention all of them in a single article.

Discontinued 100 Mbps KVM VPS:

We have discontinued 100 Mbps Unmetered KVM VPS and instead of started offering Gigabit VPS as we noticed now when 100 Mbps connectivity is very common even in a typical household broadband, so 100 Mbps on a server is not enough, moreover we had more reasons to make this decision like when we were offering 100 Mbps Unmetered VPS even a few abusive or even compromised 100 Mbps VPS could make the network experience bad for other VPS users on the VPS node and since we did not wanted to compromise on quality of our services, we made this tough decision. Though we are not terminating existing 100 Mbps VPS users, they can continue to use their 100 Mbps VPS as long as they keep renewing and even option to upgrade to Gigabit VPS is open for them.

Also new nodes that we are adding for Gigabit VPS are now on 10 Gbps Port, very soon we will upgrade, all our VPS nodes (those nodes will only have Gigabit VPS not 100 Mbps unmetered VPS)

Migration from SolusVM to Virtualizor:

SolusVM is a good VPS control panel but it’s been lacking lots of features that were available in Virtualizor or where were very much needed, hence we even switch from SolusVM to Virtualizor, it wasn’t issue to switch but we still did it with help of very helpful team of Virtualizor.

Some of the new features which were not available until in our VPS control panel will be available now, like:

  1. Custom ISO upload – Now if you need to install an OS that’s not already available in our VPS templates you need not worry, just login to your VPS control panel and you can upload your own ISO and install your own OS, no need to even submit a ticket to do so.
  2. Until now we had to shutdown or suspend VPS of CPU abusive users, but now we can simply cap or limit their CPU usage to make sure experience of other VPS users is not affected and it even avoids downtime for VPS users whose CPU usage goes out of control (usually it’s due to some buggy software)
  3. Complete Integration with our billing system, so now you even don’t need to login to VPS control panel separately, you can mange most of the things directly from Client Porta/Billing/Helpdesk
  4. Support for Block Storage (We plan to provide block storage soon, but lack of support in SolusVM was our biggest hurdle, but now we have this option available)

There are many more features to list in a single article.

Very soon even daily backups will be available with our Premium Ryzen VPS, we will send out an email once it’s available.

Premium Ryzen VPS Now Available in Los Angeles (Dallas coming soon)

Finally our Premium Range of Ryzen VPS are now available to order from:

https://my.hosteons.com/cart.php?gid=22

Our Ryzen VPS Nodes specs are:

AMD Ryzen 3900X (3.5Ghz+)

128 GB DDR 4 RAM

RAID Protected NVME Drives

10 Gbps Network

These are premium VPS with some premium perks:

  1. Free Blesta License
  2. Free Windows 2019 License on 1 yr, 2 yr and 3 yr Billing cycles on support VPS Pacakges

More Perks coming soon

Our Ryzen VPS Services also has all standard features like:

  1. VPS control panel to reboot and reinstall VPS along with VNC Access
  2. RDNS Control in your VPS control panel
  3. IPv6 /64 with RDNS Management
  4. Upto 100 Gbps DDOS Protection
  5. all Popular ISO/CDROM are already available in our VPS control panel.
  6. Tons of OS Templates available in VPS Control Panel
  7. 24×7 Support

We ran few benchmarks on a VPS on our Ryzen 2 GB VPS Package:

Benchmark Results of Yet-Another-Bench-Script:

root@ryzen1testLA:~# curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script/master/yabs.sh | bash

## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##

Yet-Another-Bench-Script

v2020-12-07

https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

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Mon Dec 21 23:19:08 EST 2020

Basic System Information:

Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 3792.874 MHz
AES-NI : ‚úî Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ‚úî Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 256.0 MiB
Disk : 29.5 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

Block Size4k (IOPS)64k (IOPS)
Read336.17 MB/s (84.0k)1.28 GB/s (20.0k)
Write337.06 MB/s (84.2k)1.29 GB/s (20.1k)
Total673.24 MB/s (168.3k)2.57 GB/s (40.2k)
Block Size512k (IOPS)1m (IOPS)
——— —-—- —-
Read1.12 GB/s (2.1k)1.10 GB/s (1.0k)
Write1.18 GB/s (2.3k)1.17 GB/s (1.1k)
Total2.30 GB/s (4.4k)2.28 GB/s (2.2k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 390 Mbits/sec | 381 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 89.5 Mbits/sec | 223 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 304 Mbits/sec | 300 Mbits/sec
Biznet | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G) | 269 Mbits/sec | 136 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 877 Mbits/sec | 524 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 505 Mbits/sec | 658 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 990 Mbits/sec | 995 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | 185 Mbits/sec | 154 Mbits/sec

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):

Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 732 Mbits/sec | 781 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 761 Mbits/sec | 775 Mbits/sec
WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 409 Mbits/sec | 157 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 941 Mbits/sec | 1.05 Gbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.86 Gbits/sec | 5.95 Gbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:

Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1149
Multi Core | 2151
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5462528

root@ryzen1testLA:~#

Monster Bench Results:

root@ryzen1testLA:~# curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh | bash speedtest.sh

Region: Global https://bench.monster v.1.5.5 2020-12-10

Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -Global

OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 4.9.0-14-amd64
CPU Model : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 3792.874 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Total Space : 30G (1.3G ~5% used)
Total RAM : 2004 MB (40 MB + 251 MB Buff in use)
Total SWAP : 255 MB (0 MB in use)

Uptime : 0 days 0:28

ASN & ISP : AS35913, DediPath
Organization : DediPath LLC
Location : Los Angeles, United States / USRegion : California

## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

Single Core : 5065 (EXCELLENT)
Multi Core : 9004

## IO Test

CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 128 MB/s
sha256 : 261 MB/s
md5sum : 639 MB/s

RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 3208.5 MB/s
Avg. read : 10103.5 MB/s

Disk Speed:
1st run : 1.4 GB/s
2nd run : 1.4 GB/s
3rd run : 1.4 GB/s


Average : 1433.6 MB/s

## Global Speedtest.net

Location Upload Download Ping

Nearby 928.71 Mbit/s 971.89 Mbit/s 6.938 ms

USA, New York (Optimum) 200.74 Mbit/s 55.82 Mbit/s 71.328 ms
USA, Chicago (Windstream) 189.51 Mbit/s 378.53 Mbit/s 59.885 ms
USA, Dallas (Frontier) 287.58 Mbit/s 479.77 Mbit/s 33.239 ms
USA, Miami (Frontier) 107.83 Mbit/s 440.78 Mbit/s 61.129 ms
USA, Los Angeles (Windstream) 755.94 Mbit/s 854.23 Mbit/s 11.119 ms
UK, London (toob Ltd) 6.12 Mbit/s 50.49 Mbit/s 132.953 ms
France, Lyon (SFR) 47.51 Mbit/s 35.16 Mbit/s 228.799 ms
Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 31.12 Mbit/s 96.26 Mbit/s 151.303 ms
Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 16.50 Mbit/s 36.59 Mbit/s 242.071 ms
Italy, Rome (Unidata) 32.80 Mbit/s 33.96 Mbit/s 174.133 ms
Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom) 12.51 Mbit/s 105.35 Mbit/s 238.693 ms
Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 13.28 Mbit/s 54.50 Mbit/s 285.328 ms
India, New Delhi (GIGATEL) 21.46 Mbit/s 76.59 Mbit/s 295.859 ms
Singapore (FirstMedia) 67.98 Mbit/s 58.75 Mbit/s 164.661 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 46.02 Mbit/s 73.27 Mbit/s 116.649 ms
Australia, Sydney (Optus) 12.46 Mbit/s 176.16 Mbit/s 156.979 ms
RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas) 13.17 Mbit/s 57.28 Mbit/s 350.871 ms

Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare) 13.55 Mbit/s 34.73 Mbit/s 177.312 ms

Finished in : 10 min 23 sec
Timestamp : 2020-12-22 04:57:51 GMT
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log

Share results:

  • https://www.speedtest.net/result/10629933948.png
  • https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15951604
  • https://clbin.com/CmNbf

root@ryzen1testLA:~#

Gigabit KVM VPS Packages Updated with much more RAM, Bandwidth, CPU and Disk Space

We at hosteons.com are constantly trying to improve our services and trying to give more bang for the bucks to our clients.

We have updated our Gigabit KVM VPS Packages to give much more resources without increasing the price, hence we have updated our VPS Packages, have a look at our new Gigabit KVM VPS Pacakages at:

https://my.hosteons.com/cart.php?gid=16

Or at

https://hosteons.com/vps.php

Also our Premium Ryzen KVM VPS will be launching soon in Dallas and Los Angeles

Ryzen and nVME VPS Coming Soon

We at hosteons.com are proud to announce that soon we will be launching our new Premium Range of Ryzen 9 3900X Based KVM VPS on RAID Protected nVME Drives in Los Angeles, CA and Dallas, TX – Yeah we are even adding a new location Dallas 🙂

Currently all our VPS Nodes are on a Dedicated Gigabit Port but our new Premium Ryzen Based VPS Nodes will be connected to 10 Gigabit Network to our same premium network (yeah we are not using cogent, HE unlike many of our competitors) Our network mix has loads of premium uplinks:

INAP Performance IP, Century Link, AT&T, NTT, Verizon, Comcast, Telia, Zayo, China Unicom, China, GTT, Verizon and many more

Initially we are launching our Ryzen Based Premium VPS in LA and Dallas, but we will be soon launching them even in our other Locations – Las Vegas, New York, Jacksonville

We will soon launch our KVM VPS services in Denver and Atlanta.

So Stay tuned for more goodies and updates

Our Special Gigabit KVM VPS Deals

Have you tried our Special Gigabit KVM VPS Deals yet ? These deals require no coupon code and were never offered before, this is the best pricing you can ever get in hosting industry without compromising in quality and also hosting company sustainability :

Deal 1 GB

1 CPU Core

10 GB SSD RAID 10

1 GB RAM

1 TB BW

Gigabit Port

1 IPv4

/64 IPv6

Linux

$11/year

Deal  2 GB

1 CPU Core

20 GB SSD RAID 10

2 GB RAM

2 TB BW

1 IPv4

/64 IPv6

Linux

$19/year

Deal 3 GB

2 CPU Core

30 GB SSD RAID 10

3 GB RAM

3 TB BW

1 IPv4

/64 IPv6

Linux

$30/year

Deal 4 GB

3 CPU Core

40 GB SSD RAID 10

4 GB RAM

4 TB BW

1 IPv4

/64 IPv6

Linux

$55/year

All These packages can be ordered from – https://my.hosteons.com/cart.php?gid=19

These packages are not available on our website, just for blog, and social media followers

Promo 30% OFF on Gigabit KVM VPS

We currently have a special 30% OFF Promo on all our Gigabit VPS Services on annual, bi-annual as well as tri-annual billing cycles. 

It applies on our Gigabit KVM VPS Packages – VPS 1 to VPS 10 (It applies only to Gigabit VPS not applicable on any other VPS package and only valid till 15th October 2020) in all 4 locations :

1) Los Angeles

2) Las Vegas

3) New York

4) Jacksonville

Also do check our improved and upgraded network in Los Angeles since we have added more bandwidth including Level3 as one of our uplinks which offers much better routing all over the globe including Asia/China

Coupon code: 30OFF (This is limited period promo valid till 15th October 2020)

This coupon only applies to new orders but if any existing customers wants to take advantage of it you can take it by renewing your VPS for another 1 year, 2 year or 3 years

If you are placing a new order simply order it from our website https://my.hosteons.com/cart.php?gid=16 or  https://hosteons.com/vps.php 

But if you don’t want to place a new order and just avail this discount on your existing VPS, just submit a support ticket asking us to generate invoice for renewal of another 1 year, 2 year or 3 year and we will give you flat 30% off on it.

Free Direct Admin with VPS

Direct Admin is a feature rich web hosting control panel for Linux as well as FreeBSD.

Since Direct Admin require a license and it’s not free most providers charges extra for Direct Admin License Fees, but we at hosteons are offering Direct Admin for Free with all our VPS packages that can match the minimum requirement of Direct Admin Control Panel.

Our usual charges for Direct Admin License fees is $5 per month per VPS (It’s $15 per month for Dedicated Server), but for now we are offering Direct Admin for free, just use the COUPON CODE “DA” to get Direct Admin free with your VPS, order a VPS from https://hosteons.com/vps.php and use coupon code “DA” in the order form after selecting “Direct Admin Add-on” then submit a ticket we will install it for free.