Topic: [EXPLAINED] How to set up a Fusion PSN stagenet node using Vultr and Ubuntu? (Read 165 times)

1) To learn
2) To contribute (if you believe in the project)
3) There are real financial rewards for doing so

Best Wishes.

Why waste time to set this up when it’s not even mainnet

Hello All,

Pynk.io CEO Seth explains how to set up a Fusion PSN stagenet node.

Youtube - https://youtu.be/k4fGqCT8woo




Step-by-step text instructions:

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First, make sure you have your JSON file and corresponding password to access it (for the wallet containing your PSN / Stagenet FSN tokens). Create a text file called password.txt which contains only the password. Make sure it's in plain text format

1) Create an instance on Vultr.
Just sign up for an account at https://www.vultr.com/?ref=7738961
Then choose a $40 Ubuntu server. Use the first/highest version of Ubuntu.

2) Log in via console
Once your server's live (a few seconds), click on it then click the 'Console' icon top right. This pops up a browser-based SSH terminal. Enter root as your username and type in the password (copied from Vultr page). Be slow and careful typing as it can be laggy.

3) Add a user
Once you're logged in, type:
adduser yourusername (eg 'adduser barbara')

then:
chown yourusername:yourusername /home/yourusername
EG:
chown barbara:barbara /home/barbara

Ubuntu will ask you to enter password twice - REMEMBER IT! Just press enter for all default user profile entries.

Create a subdirectory for your node:
mkdir /home/yourusername/yournodename
EG:
mkdir /home/barbara/barbsnode

4) Set up FTP
Enter:
apt-get install vsftpd
Then:
sudo vim /etc/vsftpd.conf

(Note, you may prefer to use nano editor rather than vim - just replace 'vim' with 'nano'...
sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Scroll up and down in this editor and remove the # signs before any of the following that might have them (most won't need changing). Press FN and DEL keys at the start of the line.

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

EG
#anonymous_enable=NO
becomes...
anonymous_enable=NO

To exit VIM and save the file, press ESC then: then wq then hit ENTER

(Even though it looks like nothing's happening, you should see :wq at bottom of the screen between pressing ESC and ENTER)

Then enter:
service vsftpd start

To check if it starts up OK

5) Set permissions
Enter the following...
chmod a-w -R /path/to/directory
chmod 755 -R /path/to/directory
EG
chmod a-w -R /home/barbara
chmod 755 -R /home/barbara
(I'm very rusty on linux so one of these might not be necessary but this gets things working)

Then restart the FTP daemon...
service vsftpd restart

6) Upload JSON and password.txt
Download an FTP client, EG Filezilla. Then use the following settings:

host: (Grab the IP from Vultr for your server instance)
username: yourusername (eg 'barbara')
password: your password (the one you entered when adding a user in step 1)

Now upload your password.txt file into the top node directory (this should be what you configured using 'mkdir' in step 3) EG /home/barbara/barbsnode)

Then create a data directory in barbs node which becomes /home/barbara/barbsnode/data
Same again for keystore within data, which becomes /home/barbara/barbsnode/data/keystore

Upload the JSON file (filename should start with UTC) into the keystore folder

7) Install docker and runpsn.sh
Enter:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker.io

Run the node using the following code...

sudo docker run -v //home/yourusername/yournodename:/fusion-node fusionnetwork/efsn -u ‘0x1234etc’ -e YourNodeName

In this case it would be:

sudo docker run -v //home/barbara/barbsnode:/fusion-node fusionnetwork/efsn -u ‘0x1234etc’ -e BarbsStagenetNode

(Replace 0x12345etc with the public address of your wallet - the same wallet containing your PSN and which you've uploaded the keystore and password.txt for)

This will fail the first time, so enter the following:
sudo chmod +x runpsn.sh
sudo ./runpsn.sh

Run your node
Enter your node startup code again and it should work. It'll need to sync the current blocks which shouldn't take too long.

9) Buy 'lottery' tickets
Go to https://assetgateway.fusionnetwork.io/
Upload your JSON file and enter the password. This should display your available PSN. Buy as many as you'd like - and I advise you to use the auto-purchase option otherwise you'll need to constantly be buying tickets.

You should soon be able to see your node at the Network Explorer at http://node.fusionnetwork.io/

You need a node AND tickets to earn rewards.

Be aware - you need to keep the lottery ticket purchase page open at the moment for it to work. Fix for that should be coming soon

10) Profit!

Feel free to send PSN donations to 0xEDd051Ea968130BE5ccb7dca865EC2f3eF9af25C

Enjoy!

PS There's now an update code which you should use once before starting node again:
sudo docker pull fusionnetwork/efsn:latest

PPS for a nicer SSH experience, use an editor such as Termius or Putty.  Use that to connect to VPS (just enter the IP, username, and password from Vultr's site). You can copy and paste the startup code easier