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@@ -7,3 +7,15 @@ if you have any fixes/updates that you need to make, feel free to open a PR.
 [wiki](https://tilde.chat/wiki/) updates are [part of this repo](wiki/) as well.
 
 stop by irc and say hi!
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+---
+
+## deployment
+
+1. clone the repo into your webroot
+2. `composer install`
+2. make sure inspircd has m_httpd.so m_httpd_stats.so loaded
+3. add a local bind for stats on 8081:
+`<bind address="127.0.0.1" port="8081" type="httpd">`
+4. add gen_stats to a crontab for a user that can write in the webroot:
+`* * * * * /var/www/tilde.chat/gen_stats`