diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1f2e572..c6b8409 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Instructions 
 
 ## docker-compose 
-- if you run into problems. delete stale containers and: `docker rmi inspi4` and `docker volume prune` to make sure there are no stale images and volumes.
+- if you are not starting from scratch. delete stale containers and: `docker rmi inspi4` and `docker volume rm inspi4_ssl` 
 - copy `config.env.exmaple` to `config.env` and edit 
-- optional: if you intend to link, copy `include.default.conf` to `include.conf` and edit
-- build: `docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml build` use: `docker-compose.linked.yml` if you intend to link.
-- start: `docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d` also use the linked variant if you intend to link.
+- optional: if you intend to link, copy `include.default.conf` to `include.conf` and edit (see linking section below.)
+- build: `docker-compose -f docker-compose.standalone.yml build` use: `docker-compose.linked.yml` if you intend to link.
+- start: `docker-compose -f docker-compose.standalone.yml up -d` also use the linked variant if you intend to link.
 
 - ~~`docker build -t inspi4 -t inspi4:latest .`~~
 - ~~`docker run -it --rm -e 'DEFAULT_BLOCK_HOST_MASK="nothing"' -net host inspi4`~~
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 # Linking 
 - Run `docker exec -it ircd_ircd_linked_1 openssl x509 -sha256 -fingerprint -in /etc/ssl/inspircd/server.crt  | tr -d ":" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` 
-to get the fingerprints.
+to get the SSL fingerprints, the `fingerprint` refers to the remote SSL certificate fingerprint for each linking section.
 
 - On `hub.netcrave.network` add something like this to the `include.conf`:
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.linked.yml b/docker-compose.linked.yml
index e63b906..29db964 100644
--- a/docker-compose.linked.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.linked.yml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ services:
         - log:/var/log/inspircd
 volumes:
     data:
-        name: data
+        name: inspi4_data
     ssl:
-        name: ssl
+        name: inspi4_ssl
     log:
-        name: log
+        name: inspi4_log
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.standalone.yml
similarity index 81%
rename from docker-compose.yml
rename to docker-compose.standalone.yml
index 7fd655d..19a3533 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.standalone.yml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ services:
         - log:/var/log/inspircd
 volumes:
     data:
-        name: data
+        name: inspi4_data
     ssl:
-        name: ssl
+        name: inspi4_ssl
     log:
-        name: log
+        name: inspi4_log