Simply by going to our [signup page](/signup) and filling in the form. You can ask for help in \#thunix on tilde.chat, or you can [contact us](contact), if you run into any difficulties.
The original machine and founder dissappeared without any warning to anyone, including server staff. For this reason, most things were not backed up, and we needed to obtain a new domain name, and a new set of machines.
Excellent! We're looking to make this system useful for the community! You can submit a PR or an issue [here](https://tildegit.org/thunix/ansible) to request the system change.
No. Sorry. Not for shell access. For other integrated services, password auth will be enabled, but not for your ssh connection. We use key based authentication, as it's more secure, and more convienent for you, to be honest.
The only exposed ports to the internet are services as defined in our [ansible playbook.](https://tildegit.org/thunix/ansible) If there is a public service you want to see, open an issue, or do a pull request for it, and we'll probably enable it without much question.
There was a huge changeover. Maybe we can get something going old thunix had, and maybe not. You can mention it in the IRC channel, and we'll see what we can do.