SSH, also known as Secure Shell, can be used for much more than obtaining a remote shell. This article will demonstrate how SSH can be used for port forwarding and proxying. The only prerequisites are an OpenSSH server (installed by default on Vultr Linux images) and an OpenSSH client (available on Linux, BSD and MS Windows.) An SSH proxy is mainly used to proxy web traffic. For example, it can be used to secure your web traffic against an unsafe local network. SSH port forwarding is ......