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-The Box
-=======
+Cloudron a Smart Server
+=======================
 
-Development setup
------------------
-* sudo useradd -m yellowtent
-** Add admin-localhost as 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts
-** All apps will be installed as hypened-subdomains of localhost. You should add
-   hyphened-subdomains of your apps into /etc/hosts
 
+
+Selfhost Instructions
+---------------------
+
+The smart server currently relies on an AWS account with access to Route53 and S3 and is tested on DigitalOcean and EC2.
+
+First create a virtual private server with Ubuntu 15.04 and run the following commands in an ssh session to initialize the base image:
+
+```
+TODO curl from a well known released version of installer.sh
+./installer.sh <domain> <aws access key> <aws acccess secret> <backup bucket> <provider> <release sha1>
+```