Shell access on iPad with Blink and Cloud VPS

An iPad with an external Bluetooth keyboard is quite a useful writing and programming device. However, you’re still going to want access to a shell and/or server environment. This walks through how to use Blink and a Cloud VPS.

Blink

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Setting up an Amazon Lightsail VPS

Amazon sets up your new VPS with secure key logins by default. You can either upload your existing Blink public key as the default, or download the default Amazon private key and install it on Blink.

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