Installing and running shadowsocks on Ubuntu Server

SS-README.md

Installing and running shadowsocks on Ubuntu Server

16.10 yakkety and above

1. Install the the shadowsocks-libev package from apt repository.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install shadowsocks-libev
   

2. Save ss.json as /etc/shadowsocks-libev/config.json.

3. Replace server_port and password in ss.json with your own choices.

4. Restart the shadowsocks-libev service.

    sudo systemctl restart shadowsocks-libev
    sudo systemctl status shadowsocks-libev
   

16.04 xenial

1. Install shadowsocks with pip.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install python-pip
    sudo pip install shadowsocks
   

2. Save ss.json under /etc/shadowsocks/.

3. Replace server_port and password in ss.json with your own choices.

4. Save ssserver.service under /usr/lib/systemd/system/

5. Enable the systemd service.

    sudo systemctl enable ssserver
    sudo systemctl start ssserver
    sudo systemctl status ssserver
   

14.04 trusty

1. Install shadowsocks with pip.

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install python-pip
    sudo pip install shadowsocks
   

2. Save ss.json, start.sh, stop.sh under /etc/shadowsocks/.

3. Replace server_port and password in ss.json with your own choices.

4. Put the following in /etc/rc.local to start ssserver upon server start.

    # Start shadowsocks server
    /etc/shadowsocks/start.sh
   

Use TCP BBR

This will install linux kernel 4.9 and enable TCP BBR congestion control algorithm to improve network bandwidth utilization (10x improvement is not uncommon).

URL=http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9.9/linux-image-4.9.9-040909-generic_4.9.9-040909.201702090333_amd64.deb

wget $URL
sudo dpkg -i $(basename $URL)

sudo reboot

echo "net.core.default_qdisc=fq" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control
sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control
lsmod | grep bbr

ss.json

{
    "server": "0.0.0.0",
    "server_port": "[port]",
    "password": "[password]",
    "timeout": 300,
    "method": "aes-256-cfb",
    "fast_open": true
}

ssserver.service

[Unit]
Description=Daemon to start shadowsocks server
Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/ss.json -qq
User=nobody

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

start.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo /usr/local/bin/ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/ss.json --user nobody -qq -d start

stop.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo /usr/local/bin/ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/ss.json -d stop