Set up shadowsocks on VPS

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The default user is root.

Bring shadowsocks online

# Install
$ apt-get install python-pip
$ pip install shadowsocks

# Do some configuration and start service
$ ssserver -h
$ vim /etc/shadowsocks.json
$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen
$ ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d start

# Trouble shooting via log
sudo less /var/log/shadowsocks.log

# Stop service cli
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d stop