How to Host a VPS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Ubuntu LXQT Desktop Environment using EC2 & VPC

How to Host a VPS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Ubuntu LXQT Desktop Environment using EC2 & VPC

Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com Sign up for AWS https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start Download VNCViewer https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer Download Putty and Puttygen https://www.putty.org https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

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Timestamps: Intro 0:00 Downloading & Installing PuTTy and PuTTygen Downloading & Installing RealVNC VNC Viewer Signing Up & Logging into AWS Launching VPC instance Launching EC2 instance Download Amazon EC2 Key Pair Allocating a Public Elastic IP address Generating Private Key using PuTTYgen Authenticating Private Key using PuTTY Attempting to Log into the VPS Associating an Elastic IP address to EC2 & VPC instances Logging into the VPS Host Name using PuTTY SSH on port 22 Configuring the VPS - Installing Programs Manual VPS Reboot Launch VNC server Open Port 5901 using a TCP protocol Connect to VNC server with RealVNC's VNC Viewer Outro

Commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tightvncserver sudo apt-get install lxqt sudo reboot

or Reboot the VPS server manually like in this video

vncserver Enter a password Verify the password you entered Congratulations your VNC server is now running!

Optional: You can install an alternate Desktop Envrionment such as XFCE if your VPS has more memory. XFCE is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

Optional commands: sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get install default-jre The above command will install Java if you plant on running a gaming servers or other programs on your VPS.

Note: Right click on your mouse to paste the following commands into the CMD terminal for ease of use.

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) https://aws.amazon.com/vpc Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. You can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in your VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

Information about LXQT https://lxqt.githu ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjjv_jtjO0Q