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Setting up XEN on a Hetzner Dedicated Server

Author: Michael van Rooijen (@mrrooijen)

DISCLAIMER: I am a programmer, not a sysadmin in my day-to-day life. I provide this guide simply as a self-reference, and as a way to contribute to the community of developers. The main motivation for writing this guide is because of the lack of properly written guides/tutorials. They were either out-dated, inaccurate, in a non-English language or simply too vague to understand (at least for me, as a programmer and not a sysadmin).

I hope this guide helps getting you up and running with your own collection of VPS's on your own Dedicated Server over at Hetzner.de.

Requirements:

How to get and install a wildcard SSL certificate

In this guide you can find how to resolve the following issues.

request a new certificate
set up Nginx to enable your certificate
check SSL configuration rating on your HTTPS site
renew a certificate

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section below.

Issue

If you installed Timeshift from the AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/timeshift/), you'll find that scheduled backups may not work. This is due to cronie being disabled by default.

Fix

Check if cronie is present first:

systemctl list-unit-files | grep cronie

	# /etc/network/interfaces
	#
	auto lo
	iface lo inet loopback

	# device: eth0
	iface eth0 inet manual

	# IPv4 bridge
	# (connect ONLY your firewall/router KVM instance here, this is the WAN device!)