Getting a free (12 Months) Quasselcore from Amazon

Amazon currently offers 12 Months of free access to a small EC2 instance - but thats more than enough to run a quasselcore. I tried it and documented the needed steps

• go to https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and sign up ( credit card and phone number needed )

• open https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1# ( us-east is one of their “cheapest” locations,see https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/)

• create a new instance, using the “amazon linux” setting and save your keys!

• go to the instances tab, and copy your hostname

• now you need to forward the quassel port

• chmod 0400 Downloads/quasselcore_ec2.pem

• ssh -i Downloads/quasselcore_ec2.pem ec2-user@ec2-12-34-56-789.compute-1.amazonaws.com

• sudo adduser -m quassel; sudo yum install screen; sudo su quassel;

• cd; wget “http://quassel-irc.org/pub/quasselcore-static-0.7.3.bz2” && bunzip2 quasselcore-static-0.7.3.bz2 && chmod +x quasselcore-static-0.7.3

• ./quasselcore-static-0.7.3 → and ctrl+c (we do this so the directory for the cert are created)

• openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem -out ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem

• screen -R quasselcore

• sudo su quassselcore; cd; ./quasselcore-static-0.7.3 –listen=0.0.0.0

• connect your client to ec2-12-34-56-789.compute-1.amazonaws.com