Hysteria is a high-performance, cross-platform proxy and VPN protocol built for fast, reliable, and censorship-resistant traffic. Hysteria runs on a modified QUIC protocol and supports SOCKS5, HTTP proxy, UDP/TCP forwarding, and Linux TProxy modes.
This guide explains how to set up the Hysteria protocol on a Linux VPS using NekoBox for Windows OS.
This article assumes the following:
- You have a Debian/Ubuntu VPS from is*hosting with SSH and root access.
- The Nekobox/Nekoray app for Windows nekoray-actual-version-windows64.zip is installed on your device.
- In this case, you can skip straight to client configuration.
- If any of the above prerequisites are not met, you may still use this guide—just follow most steps with minor adjustments as needed.
Setting Up Clients
To set up a Hysteria protocol connection in the NekoBox app, follow these steps:
- Before starting, copy the server link (e.g., hy2://xxxxxxxxx@IP:443) from the email you received after order activation.
- Open the NekoBox app and select Server.
- From the drop-down list, select Add profile from clipboard.
- The first Hysteria 2 profile will appear in the NekoBox app window. To launch it, check the Tun Mode box to connect all apps on the device to the VPN, or check the System Proxy Mode box to connect only browsers to the VPN.
- To fill in the profile details, double-click it with the left mouse button.
- Fill in the required profile information, which you received in the email immediately after activating your order:
- Name: Connection name
- Address: Server address: **.***.***.**
- Port: 443
- Password: ********
- Right-click the Hysteria 2 profile → select Run from the drop-down list.
- Congratulations! You have configured and installed a VPN connection based on the Hysteria protocol on a Linux VPS in the Nekobox application for Windows.
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