diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
index 1724d15..1429838 100644
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -698,11 +698,11 @@
     },
     "nixpkgs_6": {
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1750506804,
-        "narHash": "sha256-VLFNc4egNjovYVxDGyBYTrvVCgDYgENp5bVi9fPTDYc=",
+        "lastModified": 1750776420,
+        "narHash": "sha256-/CG+w0o0oJ5itVklOoLbdn2dGB0wbZVOoDm4np6w09A=",
         "owner": "NixOS",
         "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "4206c4cb56751df534751b058295ea61357bbbaa",
+        "rev": "30a61f056ac492e3b7cdcb69c1e6abdcf00e39cf",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
@@ -819,11 +819,11 @@
         "nixpkgs": []
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1749636823,
-        "narHash": "sha256-WUaIlOlPLyPgz9be7fqWJA5iG6rHcGRtLERSCfUDne4=",
+        "lastModified": 1750779888,
+        "narHash": "sha256-wibppH3g/E2lxU43ZQHC5yA/7kIKLGxVEnsnVK1BtRg=",
         "owner": "cachix",
         "repo": "pre-commit-hooks.nix",
-        "rev": "623c56286de5a3193aa38891a6991b28f9bab056",
+        "rev": "16ec914f6fb6f599ce988427d9d94efddf25fe6d",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
diff --git a/nixos/machines/cthulhu/configuration.nix b/nixos/machines/cthulhu/configuration.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bcb21aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/machines/cthulhu/configuration.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+  imports = [
+    ./hardware-configuration.nix
+    ../../roles
+    ../../roles/vm.nix
+    ../../modules/vmNetwork.nix
+  ];
+
+  # System configuration here
+
+  networking.hostName = "cthulhu";
+  vmNetwork.ipv4 = "192.168.0.16";
+  system.stateVersion = "25.05";
+
+  sops.secrets = {
+    backupKey = {
+      sopsFile = ./backupKey.secrets.yaml;
+      owner = "root";
+      group = "root";
+      mode = "0400";
+    };
+  };
+  # TODO for the network rework, make a central record of hostnames to ip adresses where every
+  # machine can read out their ip address and also this machine
+}
diff --git a/nixos/machines/cthulhu/hardware-configuration.nix b/nixos/machines/cthulhu/hardware-configuration.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa0a0fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/machines/cthulhu/hardware-configuration.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}: {
+  imports = [];
+
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "root";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = ["size=1G" "mode=755"];
+  };
+  fileSystems."/persist" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
+    fsType = "btrfs";
+    options = ["subvol=persist"];
+    neededForBoot = true;
+  };
+  fileSystems."/boot" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/boot";
+    fsType = "ext4";
+  };
+  fileSystems."/nix" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
+    fsType = "btrfs";
+    options = ["subvol=nix"];
+  };
+  fileSystems."/var/www" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/cthulhu-website-"; # The trailing - is part of the name, i suspect it was meant to be longer
+    fsType = "ext4";
+  };
+  # nix puts the caching folder under /var/cache/nginx
+  fileSystems."/var/cache/nginx" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-label/cthulhu";
+    fsType = "ext4";
+  };
+
+  nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
+}