How To Run Your Own VPN Server With Outline And DigitalOcean

how to run your own vpn server with

outline and digital ocean the first

thing we need to do is open up our

browser and navigate to the following

url address this url address is my

referral link for digitalocean as a

brand new user it will give you 100

free promotional credit to try out

digital ocean servers free for 60 days

i'll put my referral link in the video

description below once you've clicked on

my referral link you'll be taken to the

home page of digitalocean at the very

top of the page you can see a message

which says free credit active get

started on digitalocean with a 100 60

day credit for new users to activate

this credit we'll need to create a

digitalocean account to do this you can

simply navigate to the top right hand

corner here and left click on sign up or

you can simply sign up on this page by

filling in your name your email address

and picking a password for your digital

ocean account once you've done that you

can simply left click on deploy in

seconds once you've created your digital

ocean account you'll need to add your

billing details and confirm the creation

of your account by clicking on the link

in your emails inbox sent to you by

digitalocean once you've confirmed the

creation of your account guys you'll be

signed into your digitalocean account

and you'll be on your digitalocean

dashboard i'm just going to sign in now

guys as i already have a digitalocean

account alright guys as you can see i'm

on my dashboard here and i'm signed into

my digitalocean account in the video

description below i'll also put a link

to a video of mine which will take you

through the process of signing up to

digitalocean at the top right hand

corner here you'll be able to see your

digital ocean 100

trial credits i've already used up all

my digital ocean promotional credit guys

hence why it says usage here instead of

my remaining 100 free trial credits

great so once you've created your

digital ocean account the next thing you

need to do is go to outline vpn's

website i'm just going to click on my

other tab that i have open here navigate

to the following url address https colon

slash

getoutline.org once you're here guys

you'll be on the outline homepage as you

can see at the very top here it says

access to the free and open internet

outline makes it easy to create a vpn

server giving anyone access to the free

and open internet simply left click on

get outline at the center of the home

page here once you've done that guys

you'll be taken to the get started

section here which says two products

that work together outline consists of

two interrelated products that work

together to provide you and your

community with uninterrupted access to

the internet on the left hand side here

you can see it says get outline manager

and on the right hand side here it says

get outline client the first outline

product that we're going to be getting

is the outline manager we'll get the

outline client later through the outline

manager so simply left click on get

outline manager once you have done that

guys look for the download button just

scroll down a bit and you should see

download the outline manager pick your

operating system so as you can see you

have three options here windows linux

and mac os i'm on windows and as you can

see windows is already pre-selected once

you've selected your operating system to

download the outline manager for simply

left click on download the outline

manager once you've done that guys

windows will prompt you to pick his

destination to save the outline manager

to as you can see i'm already in my

downloads folder here and that's where

i'm going to be saving it to file name

i'm going to leave it as it is and save

as type again i'm going to leave it as

it is left click on save to download the

outline manager as you can see guys it's

a relatively small file and once it has

been downloaded navigate to the bottom

left hand corner of your browser left

click on the arrow here and then left

click on open once you've done that guys

the outline manager setup will begin

running and installing the outline

manager once your outline manager has

been installed you can minimize your

browser for the time being and as you

can see guys the outline manager is

already open for us so at the top here

it says choose a cloud service to set up

outline don't have a server create an

account with digitalocean now of course

guys at the very start of the video we

created our digitalocean account and

bagged ourselves 100

free trial credit to use on digitalocean

to set up our vpn server so as you can

see guys from the outline manager it

gives us four choices to pick a cloud

service from the first one is

digitalocean and that is the recommended

cloud service by the outline manager

according to the outline manager

digitalocean is the easiest setup

process it's only five dollars a month

you get one terabyte data transfer

allowance and you can cancel at any time

your other three cloud service choices

are google cloud platform amazon light

sale and set up anywhere such as vulture

lenode and liquid web of course guys for

today's video we're going to be going

with the digital ocean cloud service and

to set up outline on the digital ocean

server all you need to do is left click

on setup once you've done that guys a

new tab will open on digitalocean asking

you to authorize outline manager read

and write access outline manager would

like permission to access your account

below you'll be able to see your email

address that you use to sign up to

digital ocean with simply tick the box

here to select that digital ocean

account and then left click on the blue

button here which says authorize

application once you've done that guys

at the top left hand corner of your

browser it will say authentication

successful you can close this window so

that's exactly what i'm going to do i'm

just going to left click on the x to

close the tab once done open up the

outline manager once again and as you

can see in the outline manager we are

now required to select the location of

our server this is where your internet

experience will come from you have

various server locations that you can

pick from keep in mind whatever server

location you pick that's where also your

vpn server ip address will be from for

today's video guys i'm going to be

picking bangalore india so i'm just

going to left click on bangalore here as

that's where i'd like my internet

experience to come from once you've

picked your server location simply left

click on setup outline at the top right

hand corner here the outline manager

will then begin setting up outline on

your digital ocean server location that

you have selected as you can see at the

top here it says this could take up to

two minutes you can destroy the server

at any time i'll be back with you guys

once our outline server has been

successfully set up alright guys as you

can see our outline server in the

bangalore location has been successfully

set up as you can see we're currently in

the connections tab here where we'll be

able to see our data transferred in the

last 30 days our allowance used in the

last 30 days for digitalocean and the

number of access keys that we have

created for our outline vpn if we look

underneath we can see one access key

here which says my access key and

underneath it says connect your device

and another column which says last 30

days of usage and of course we've just

set up our outline server so therefore

it says none to see our access key for

our outline vpn simply navigate to the

icon to the right of our access key

which has a small laptop and smartphone

icon and left click on it once you've

done that guys you'll be greeted with a

smaller window which says get connected

to access the open internet through this

outline server follow these instructions

connect this device or connect a

different device i'm going to be

connecting my windows computer guys

which i'm currently setting up our

outline vpn on so i'm going to be left

clicking on connect this device however

if you wanted to connect your smartphone

tablet or another computer you'll need

to left click on connect a different

device i'm going to be left clicking on

connect this device once you've done

that you'll be greeted with your access

key which is here copy your access code

you're about to download the outline app

but first copy this code this allows the

app to help you get connected right away

so all we need to do guys is left click

on copy to copy our access key once done

we'll be taken to this page which says

get the outline app from this installer

the first option is to install outline

and underneath it says already installed

add server so of course guys to connect

to our outline vpn we're going to need

to download the outline client if you

already have installed the outline

client when you were downloading the

outline manager then all you need to do

is left click on add server however if

you haven't already downloaded the

outline client simply left click on

install outline once you've done that

guys windows again will prompt you to

pick a save location to save the outline

client as you can see guys i'm already

in the downloads tab here file name i'm

going to leave it as it is save as type

i'm going to leave it as it is and then

i'm going to left click on save once

done the outline client will then be

downloaded to the save location that you

have chosen i'm just going to minimize

the outline manager for the time being

and my browser as well next i'm going to

open up my downloads folder here by

double clicking on the shortcut on my

desktop here and as you can see guys the

outline client is right here i'm just

going to double click on it to start the

installation process if you're on

windows you'll be greeted with the user

account control which asks you do you

want to allow this app to make changes

to your device you have two options yes

or no of course guys if you want to

install the outline client you're going

to have to left click on yes once done

the outline client will then begin

installing on your computer once

installed the outline client will

immediately open and your access key

that you copied from the outline manager

will automatically be detected and

filled into this box here so as you can

see the outline client says access key

detected please confirm that you want to

add the server so all we're going to do

now is left click on add server once

done the outline server will be added to

your outline client before connecting to

your outline vpn what i recommend doing

is navigating to the three vertical dots

at the top right hand corner of your

outline client left clicking on it and

then left click on rename delete the

default name which says outline server

and type the name of your digital ocean

server location so of course guys i

picked bangalore india so i'm going to

type bangalore in here

once you have renamed your added server

simply left click on save and as you can

see guys our outline server has been

renamed to bangalore and underneath you

can see our vpn's ip address all that's

left to do now to connect to your vpn is

simply navigate to the bottom right hand

corner here and left click on connect

once done you'll be connected to your

outline vpn your personal ip address

will now be masked by the following ip

address of your digital ocean outline

server to check if we are connected to

our vpn open up your browser and

navigate to any search engine as you can

see guys i'm on duckduckgo.com here and

i'm going to type the following what is

my ip address and then i'm going to hit

enter to search and as you can see guys

at the very top of the search engine

you'll be able to see your ip address

which in my case is 139

5956 104 in bangalore india and i'm

going to double check that ip address by

opening up my outline client here and as

you can see guys

139.5956104 matches the exact ip address

that's shown in our search engine in the

client you might be wondering what is

after the colon here that is simply your

port all right guys fantastic we've

successfully set up our own private vpn

to disconnect from your vpn simply

navigate to the bottom right hand corner

here of your outline client and left

click on disconnect and as you can see

guys we are now disconnected from our

vpn and before i end the video guys i'm

going to show you how to create

additional access keys to share your vpn

with your friends and family to do this

i'm simply going to open up my outline

manager once again i'm going to click

close on this window here great so to

generate additional access keys navigate

to where it says access keys here and

left click on add new key once you've

done that guys a new key will be

generated as you can see it has a

default name of key one you can give it

any name you want so let's say if i had

a friend called john i'd simply type

john in here and hit enter to save once

done navigate to the right hand side

here of the new axis key that you've

created to the three vertical dots and

left click on it as you can see you have

the option to rename remove or data

limit left click on data limit here you

can set a data limit for the access key

named john if you want to set a custom

limit simply check the box which says

set a custom limit and enter the data

limit for your selected access key now

remember guys the cheapest server which

we have created is five dollars a month

and we get access to one terabyte of

data transfer on our vpn so let's give

this access key 50 gigabytes we can

always increase it or decrease it

whenever we want simply left click on

save and as you can see guys john now

has 50 gigabytes of usage that he can

use in 30 days for my access key as you

can see there is no limit that's why it

says none if i wanted to share my access

key with john so that he can connect

what we need to do is simply navigate to

the right hand side here of the john

access key and left click on the share

button here at the top here it says

share access copy this invitation and

send it from a communication tool you

trust as you can see guys this is the

invitation message which john will get

if you left click on copy invitation so

as you can see at the very top here it

says you are invited to connect to my

outline server use it to access the open

internet no matter where you are follow

the instructions on your invitation link

below to download the outline client and

get connected so all john will need to

do is left click on this link here and

follow the instructions if he's having

trouble he can simply scroll down in the

invitation link and follow the two

instructions here as you can see his

access key is right here and further

instructions are here on the outline

client github repository so again guys

all you need to do to give john access

is left click on copy invitation and

send it to him using your communication

tool of choice all john will need to do

then is download the outline client not

the outline manager just the outline

client paste in the outline access key

into the outline client that you shared

with him using the invitation link and

then all he needs to do once the vpn

server has been added is left click on

connect all right guys that covers

access keys and adding additional keys

for new users if you want to delete your

digital ocean outline vpn server all

you'll need to do is open up the outline

manager navigate to the top right hand

corner here left click on the three

vertical dots and left click on destroy

server destroy server existing users

will lose access this action cannot be

undone you have the option to cancel or

to destroy i'm going to left click on

destroy and as you can see guys you're

brought back to the first page on the

outline manager when we first installed

it if you also want to remove your

digital ocean account from the outline

manager navigate to the top left hand

corner here of your outline manager to

the three horizontal lines and left

click on it once done a side menu will

open and as you can see guys you'll be

able to see all your servers that you

have connected to your outline manager

as you can see the digital ocean server

is right at the top here left click on

the three vertical dots and as you can

see at the very top it says disconnect

digitalocean account and then you'll be

able to see your digital ocean's account

email address and simply left click on

disconnect and as you can see guys our

digitalocean server which was displayed

as an icon at the top left hand corner

here has now been removed from the

outline manager meaning that we have

successfully removed our digitalocean

account alright guys that pretty much

concludes the video on how to run your

own vpn server with outline and

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