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+## Preamble
+
+This document will talk you through setting up your own tilde.club flavoured server; the example `domain.club` is used below. 
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+* An [Amazon AWS account](https://aws.amazon.com), though any other cloud provider would work just as well.
+* Your own domain
+* A thirst for the unknown
+
+## Create an instance on Amazon EC2
+
+* On AWS click `Launch Instance`
+* Select `Amazon Linux AMI`
+* Select `t2.micro`
+* Select the (recommended) thingy in the popup
+* Click `Launch`
+* In `Security Groups`:
+  * Right click on the security group used by your instance and:
+    * Click `Edit inbound rules`
+      * Add a rule for `HTTP`
+      * Add a rule for `SSH`
+  * Again, right click on the security group used by your instance and:
+    * Click `Edit outbound rules`
+      * Add a rule for `HTTP`
+      * Add a rule for `HTTPS`
+* In `Elastic IPs`:
+   * Click `Allocate New Address`
+   * Choose `VPC` on the dropdown (it won't work otherwise, I forget why)
+   * Right click, `Associate Address`
+   * Choose the instance you just created
+* Create an `A record` at your domain name registrar to point at the Elastic IP then wait for those changes to propagate.
+
+**NOTE** This could take up to 48 hours, use `dig domain.club +nostats +nocomments +nocmd` to see if you're in business.
+
+## SSH into your shiny instance using your `pem` file
+
+* `ssh -i security.pem ec2-user@domain.club`
+* `yum update`
+* `sudo yum remove java`
+* `sudo yum install git`
+
+## Change hostname
+
+* `sudo vim /etc/hosts` change `localhost.localdomain` to `domain.club`
+* `sudo vim /etc/sysconfig/network` change `localhost.localdomain` to `domain.club`
+* `sudo reboot`
+
+## Allow passwords to log in
+
+* `sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config` change `PasswordAuthentication` to `yes`
+* `sudo service sshd restart`
+
+## Create a test user `foo` account and `public_html` folder
+
+* `sudo adduser foo`
+* `sudo passwd foo`
+* `sudo mkdir /home/foo/public_html`
+* `sudo chown foo:foo /home/foo/public_html`
+* `sudo chmod 755 /home/foo`
+* `sudo chmod 755 /home/foo/public_html`
+
+## Install Apache
+
+* `sudo yum install httpd`
+* `sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start`
+* `sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf`:
+  * comment out `UserDir disabled`
+  * uncomment `UserDir public_html`
+  * uncomment the `Control access to UserDir directories` block beginning with `<Directory /home/*/public_html>`
+* `sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart`
+
+## Install other software
+
+* `yum install tmux`
+* `yum install mutt`
+* `yum install irssi`
+* `yum install tree`
+* `yum install lynx`
+* `yum install finger`
+* etc