🖥 How to Build a Hacking VPS 🏹

Robert Scocca
7 min readSep 26, 2020

I’ll show you how to set up a Kali Linux virtual private sever(VPS) on Digital Ocean for ethical hacking, how to use a browser though your VPS, get a free domain name for your VPS, make a local backup and more!

When doing ethical hacking challenges or on pen-testing lab platforms like Hack the Box(HTB), Try Hack Me(THM) or Cyber Sec Labs(CSL), you’re likely hacking from a virtual machine. This works great but I’ve found setting up a VPS to launch my ethical hacking endeavors from has a few important benefits.

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