Updated - Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs
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@Dashrender said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@Dashrender said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@Pete-S said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Aside from security, another concern is that that list seems to be pretty dynamic with which servers are available. Managing 4 shortcuts for everyone with hardcoded links would be a nightmare to update.
You mean "pretty dynamic" being the same as "totally freakin unreliable", with unknown uptime, unknown bandwidth, used by spammers and who-knows-what?
That's why I said VPN service, like nordvpn. Which in this scenario is exactly the same thing as a proxy.
Or set up your own proxy servers somewhere in the cloud.
Right, but can you run 4 VPN services at the same time? And even if you can, can you configure a browser to use a specific VPN?
Can you? Yes. Do most support this? No.
Right - I know you can run for SSH sessions at once, so yeah right there - 4 VPN tunnels... but can you make it work as this person wants? Perhaps, I don't know how at this time - I guess Google would be my friend.
AFAIK no one makes a VPN tool for this, but you can make your own for sure.
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I found this the other day (and almost lost it; had to search my chrome history)
https://sessionbox.io/plans/auto-renewalIt is a Chrome extension that allows you to specify a different proxy for each session. Might be easier to manage this than 4+ separate shortcuts for 25+ users.
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I also need to know what the best proxy server would be to run for this. Squid?
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
I found this the other day (and almost lost it; had to search my chrome history)
https://sessionbox.io/plans/auto-renewalIt is a Chrome extension that allows you to specify a different proxy for each session. Might be easier to manage this than 4+ separate shortcuts for 25+ users.
Not a bad idea.
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
I also need to know what the best proxy server would be to run for this. Squid?
Yes, for outbound (forward) proxy, Squid is king. And free.
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@scottalanmiller It is this one, right? http://www.squid-cache.org/
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller It is this one, right? http://www.squid-cache.org/
Correct
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Would multiple Vultr instances be a good platform for this? Can I just deploy a custom Fedora iso and install Squid on these without an additional firewall in front of them? Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Would multiple Vultr instances be a good platform for this? Can I just deploy a custom Fedora iso and install Squid on these without an additional firewall in front of them? Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
make a snapshot or backup in Vultr and then deploy new instance from it.
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Can I just deploy a custom Fedora iso and install Squid on these without an additional firewall in front of them?
Why would you use a customer ISO?
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
The install script would be like a one liner once you have a standard. Just copy that one liner into Vultr's script list and have it run on install. You only have more complexity if you use the custom ISO instead of their managed image service.
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Would multiple Vultr instances be a good platform for this?
Yup
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@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Can I just deploy a custom Fedora iso and install Squid on these without an additional firewall in front of them?
Why would you use a customer ISO?
Based on other discussions, I thought that the Vultr-provided ISOs were outdated or otherwise not desirable for deployment.
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@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
The install script would be like a one liner once you have a standard. Just copy that one liner into Vultr's script list and have it run on install. You only have more complexity if you use the custom ISO instead of their managed image service.
Where can I get more info on the one liner with options to customize?
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Based on other discussions, I thought that the Vultr-provided ISOs were outdated or otherwise not desirable for deployment.
That's correct. Using their ISOs is something you'd never do. But why talk about ISOs at all? You don't use ISOs in normal cloud, that's a really obscure thing done for VPS usage for very specific tasks like FreePBX installs where it is an appliance, not an application.
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
The install script would be like a one liner once you have a standard. Just copy that one liner into Vultr's script list and have it run on install. You only have more complexity if you use the custom ISO instead of their managed image service.
Where can I get more info on the one liner with options to customize?
You just write it. For example, the base install is something like...
dnf -y install squid-cacheThat's it. But you might want more, like enabling it.
dnf -y install squid-cache; systemctl enable squid-cacheLike that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
The install script would be like a one liner once you have a standard. Just copy that one liner into Vultr's script list and have it run on install. You only have more complexity if you use the custom ISO instead of their managed image service.
Where can I get more info on the one liner with options to customize?
You just write it. For example, the base install is something like...
dnf -y install squid-cacheThat's it. But you might want more, like enabling it.
dnf -y install squid-cache; systemctl enable squid-cacheLike that.
OK. I would be looking for a more complete template. Something more "cookie-cutter" for deployment that would require the least amount of work for subsequent deployments.
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@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Also, I have to do at least 4; how can I create a template or clone for initial deployment and any future additions?
The install script would be like a one liner once you have a standard. Just copy that one liner into Vultr's script list and have it run on install. You only have more complexity if you use the custom ISO instead of their managed image service.
Where can I get more info on the one liner with options to customize?
You just write it. For example, the base install is something like...
dnf -y install squid-cacheThat's it. But you might want more, like enabling it.
dnf -y install squid-cache; systemctl enable squid-cacheLike that.
OK. I would be looking for a more complete template. Something more "cookie-cutter" for deployment that would require the least amount of work for subsequent deployments.
That is getting you a working proxy. Foo you want to customise it? Then that takes more work.
@scottalanmiller I'd add the -now switch for systemctl.
dnf -y install squid-cache; systemctl enable --now squid-cache -
@travisdh1 two hyphens.
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@scottalanmiller said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
@wrx7m said in Connecting to 1 Site With Separate Logins/Several IPs:
Based on other discussions, I thought that the Vultr-provided ISOs were outdated or otherwise not desirable for deployment.
That's correct. Using their ISOs is something you'd never do. But why talk about ISOs at all? You don't use ISOs in normal cloud, that's a really obscure thing done for VPS usage for very specific tasks like FreePBX installs where it is an appliance, not an application.
Slow down and think from start to finish before typing..
There is no "appliance" for Squid.
For this use case, the Fedora choice is likely the best.
Does it have more bits installed than he needs compared to a manual Minimal install? Probably, but not enough to matter.
@wrx7m I always, 100%, start from minimal when I write guides because I never know where the reader will be starting from. Don't conflate something like that with setting up an application server.
