Deploying

Setup your own server

First, buy a server from any cloud provider. DigitalOcean is recommended by us:

Then, install Linux on your servers, Ubuntu 22.04 or later is recommended.

Go

go-shadowsocks2 is the next-generation Shadowsocks in Go, maintained by @riobard, supersedes the discontinued shadowsocks-go.

GitHub

Use go install to install.

$ go install github.com/shadowsocks/go-shadowsocks2@latest

go-shadowsocks2 is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Go from Outline

outline-ss-server is the shadowsocks implementation used by the Outline Server, but it can be used standalone. Main features:

• Multiple users on a single port and multiple ports.
• Whitebox monitoring of the service using prometheus.io
• Live updates via config change + SIGHUP
• Prohibits unsafe access to localhost ports and usage of non-AEAD ciphers

GitHub

Download pre-built binaries from the GitHub releases or build it from source:

go install github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-ss-server@latest
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/outline-ss-server -config=config.yml -metrics=127.0.0.1:9091

outline-ss-server is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

C with libev

shadowsocks-libev is a lightweight and full featured port for embedded devices and low end boxes. It's a pure C implementation and has a very small footprint (several megabytes) for thousands of connections. This port is maintained by @madeye.

Debian/Ubuntu:

shadowsocks-libev is available in the official repository for Debian and Ubuntu:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install shadowsocks-libev

Docker

shadowsocks-libev is shipped also in containers, which makes it a great choice if your cloud provider is Docker-ready or if you aim to build a scalable solution.

docker pull shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev
docker run -e PASSWORD=<password> -p<server-port>:8388 -p<server-port>:8388/udp -d shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev

More information about the image can be found here.

GitHub

Build and install the project from source code.

$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends build-essential autoconf libtool \
        libssl-dev gawk debhelper dh-systemd init-system-helpers pkg-config asciidoc \
        xmlto apg libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libev-dev libudns-dev libsodium-dev libmbedtls-dev libc-ares-dev automake
$ git clone https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev.git
$ cd shadowsocks-libev
$ git submodule update --init
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
$ sudo make install

shadowsocks-libev is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

C++ with Qt

libQtShadowsocks is a lightweight and ultra-fast shadowsocks library written in C++ with Qt 5. The client shadowsocks-libqss can be used in both client-side and server-side. This port is maintained by @librehat.

Prebuilt binaries

Download pre-built binaries from https://github.com/shadowsocks/libQtShadowsocks/releases

GitHub

$ git clone https://github.com/shadowsocks/libQtShadowsocks.git
$ cd libQtShadowsocks
$ qmake
$ make -j4
$ sudo make install

libQtShadowsocks is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0

Perl

Net::Shadowsocks is an asynchronous, non-blocking Shadowsocks client and server Perl module maintained by @zhou0.

Setting up

You need a Perl interpreter to execute Perl program. Any Unix-like system, including Linux and Mac OS X, has Perl pre-installed. Windows does not have Perl installed by default, so you need to install Strawberry Perl. The source code is available on CPAN and github. Download from CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Shadowsocks or download from github https://github.com/zhou0/shadowsocks-perl

Installing

On Unix-like systems, either

$ perl Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build test
$ ./Build install

or

$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

You might need to change make to dmake or nmake depending on the compiler toolchain used on Windows. If you have cpan, you can also install using this command:

$ cpan Net::Shadowsocks

Running

There is a server.pl script under the eg directory. Put your config.json in the same directory as server.pl and run the server.pl script there.

Net::Shadowsocks is licensed under the Artistic License (2.0).