NOTE: DO NOT follow this procedure if your account was created AFTER Dec 2006

Create a .profile file on the root(/) of your VDS.

Here is some example content:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_03
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

alias ll='ls -la --color'
alias ls='ls --color'
alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'
alias postgres='/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres'

Change this:

# Unauthorized distribution strictly prohibited.
LANG="C"
export LANG

# Unauthorized distribution strictly prohibited.
source /.profile
LANG="C"
export LANG

Now, everytime you restart your VDS, all of your aliases, ENV variables, etc. are set.