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+# Setting up the tilde.club IRC server
+
+We chose to go with charybdis, mostly because it's in the Debian/Ubuntu package repository (universe), so we can update it without having to go through the configure/make/make install process.
+
+## System setup
+
+The server is an Amazon EC2 instance, running Ubuntu. Initial system setup included:
+
+* modifying the hostname (`sudo hostname irc`) (and perhaps also needing to edit the `/etc/hostname` file, unclear)
+* updating the `/etc/hosts` file (add `172.30.0.216 irc.tilde.club irc`)
+
+## Installing charybdis
+
+First, we needed to add the "universe" repository to the `apt` repository list:
+
+```
+sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe"
+```
+
+Once that was added, charybdis could be installed:
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install charybdis
+```