You're here because you have, or I have offered you, a shell account on one of my servers. Herein are the rules and setup and so on.
Don't do anything stupid or illegal. No cracking, no spam, no warez, no piracy, etc, etc, etc.
All of these machines run SELinux. This may cause things to break in weird or surprising ways. Let me know if you have any trouble.
The old shell server, chain, was entirely encrypted. The new one isn't. FIXME: aoeu
The servers backup /home (but not /home/tmp), /srv, and /etc
FIXME: backup rate
The backups cost me money. This means you need to make sure that the backups don't include anything that changes a lot (databases, encrypted anything) or that doesn't really need backing up (logs, encrypted anything).
DO NOT put anything in those areas that shouldn't be backed up. This means no encrypted file systems, no giant log files, etc, etc.