diff --git a/ops/README.md b/ops/README.md
index a84040e..4a74a0f 100644
--- a/ops/README.md
+++ b/ops/README.md
@@ -9,10 +9,30 @@ Machine:
 - A / AAAA records on DNSimple for compass.heartofclojure.eu
   159.100.242.109
   2a04:c43:e00:5d3b:4f6:2cff:fe00:612
-  
+
+Database
+- We use a exoscale hosted postgresql instance as a backend for datomic
+- Transactor runs on the same box
   
 ssh accesss:
 - Make sure your membership of the heartofclojure group is public on github
 https://github.com/orgs/heartofclojure/people
 - Wait up to ten minutes
-- You can now ssh root@compass.heartofclojure.eu
+
+```
+ssh root@compass.heartofclojure.eu
+systemctl status txor
+systemctl status compass
+journalctl -u compass -f
+```
+
+```
+ssh compass@compass.heartofclojure.eu
+vim ~/config.edn
+```
+
+Deploys
+- we have a bare repo on the server
+- in there there's a pre-receive hook (ops/pre-receive.bb)
+- pushed to this repo will trigger a deploy
+- the github actions does a push