diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index e0d2def..77000d6 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os
+import sys
 import socket
 import signal
 import threading
@@ -7,15 +8,23 @@ import subprocess
 import re
 import time
 import queue
+import config
+import ssl as ssllib
 
 class Server():
+    # Order of functions in Server():
+    # - Public API (non underscored functions and __init__)
+    # - Thread targets
+    # - Internal helper functions (message parsing, message handling, etc)
+    # - Bot commands (pid, die, etc)
+
     # Setup the IRC related things such as user details and prefixes
     # This function also sets up the threading events and queues
-    def __init__(self, realname, nickname, channel, command_prefix = "$!", bot_prefix = "$$", opper_nicknames = []):
+    def __init__(self, realname, nickname, channels, command_prefix = "$!", bot_prefix = "$$", opper_nicknames = [], message_queue_max_size = 512):
         print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using Server() on Python3 PID {os.getpid()}")
         self.realname = realname
         self.nickname = nickname
-        self.channel = channel
+        self.channels = channels
         self.opper_nicknames = opper_nicknames
 
         # Prefix for commands to execute
@@ -27,21 +36,33 @@ class Server():
         # Used to signal threads to shutdown
         self._going_down = threading.Event()
 
-        # Queue used for messages to send
-        self._msg_q = queue.Queue()
+        # Used to signal command thread to kill the children process
+        self._kill_cmd = threading.Event()
+
+        # Queue used for IRC server send() calls
+        self._send_q = queue.Queue(maxsize = message_queue_max_size)
 
         # Rate limiting variables
         # Used so it can be quired by IRC
         self._msg_time = 0
         self._msg_count = 0
 
-        print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using nickname {nickname} on {channel}!")
+        print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using nickname {nickname}!")
 
     # This function handles the socket bring up
     # Sets socket paramaters, and starts the send/recv threads
-    def connect(self, ip, port, sock_timeout = 60, sock_sendbuf = 512, sock_recvbuf = 512):
+    def connect(self, ip, port, ssl = False, sock_timeout = 60, sock_sendbuf = 512, sock_recvbuf = 512):
         print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Connecting to {ip}:{port}")
-        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
+        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
+        if ssl:
+            print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using SSL for connection!")
+            context = ssllib.create_default_context()
+            self.sock = context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname = ip)
+        else:
+            print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using plain text for connection!")
+            self.sock = sock
 
         print(f"[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Using socket timeout of {sock_timeout} seconds!")
         self.sock.settimeout(sock_sendbuf)
@@ -60,40 +81,72 @@ class Server():
 
     # Gracefully shuts the server down
     def die(self, msg = "Python3 Server() outta here!"):
-        print("[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Sending PART and QUIT")
-        # Part all of our channels with a cool message, then quit
-        self._msg_q.put(f"PART {self.channel} : {msg}\r\n".encode())
-        self._msg_q.put(f"QUIT : {msg}\r\n".encode())
+        # NOOP if we're in the process of going down
+        if self._going_down.is_set():
+            return
 
-        print("[SERVER/MAINTHREAD] Signaling threads to quit!")
+        print("[SERVER] Sending PART and QUIT")
+        # Part all of our channels with a cool message, then quit
+        for channel in self.channels:
+            self.sock.send(f"PART {channel} : {msg}\r\n".encode())
+
+        self.sock.send(f"QUIT : {msg}\r\n".encode())
+
+        print("[SERVER] Signaling threads to quit!")
         # Signal threads to quit
         self._going_down.set()
 
+        print("[SERVER] Signaling main thread to quit!")
+        os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGINT)
+
+    # Sends a message to a target (user/channel)
+    # The bot does NOT have to be a channel to send a message, but most channels
+    # disallow messages from non-JOIN'ed users.
+    def privmsg(self, target, message, bypass_q = False):
+        # Check for send thread
+        try:
+            self._send_thread
+        except NameError:
+            raise RuntimeWarning("connect() must be called before this command is used!")
+
+        # format message
+        message = f"PRIVMSG {target} :{message}\r\n".encode()
+
+        if bypass_q:
+            self.sock.send(message)
+        else:
+            self._send_q.put(message)
+
     # Function used to send messages from the queue
     # Rate limiting is also implemented here
     def _send_loop(self, ip):
         while not self._going_down.is_set():
-            self._msg_count+=1
             self._msg_time = (0.15 * self._msg_count)**2
             print(f"[SENDTHREAD] Sleeping for {self._msg_time} seconds on message count {self._msg_count}")
             time.sleep(self._msg_time)
             if self._msg_count == 10:
+                print("[SENDTHREAD] Sending ping on 10th message!")
+                self.sock.send(f"PING :{ip}\r\n".encode())
                 self._msg_count = 0
 
             # Grab message and send it
             try:
-                msg = self._msg_q.get(timeout = 60)
+                msg = self._send_q.get(timeout = 60)
+
+                # Only increment the message count if we actually get a message,
+                # the server will PING us when it needs to.
+                self._msg_count+=1
             except queue.Empty:
                 # So the thread signaler works
-                print("[SENDTHREAD] Timeout occurred waiting on queue... sending ping!")
-                self.sock.send(f"PING :{ip}\r\n".encode())
+                continue
 
             print(f"[SENDTHREAD] Sending message: {msg}")
             try:
                 self.sock.send(msg)
             except BrokenPipeError:
                 # Can't use die because we have no connection... just quit I suppose
-                self._going_down.set()
+                print("[SENDTHREAD] Quitting due to BrokenPipeError!")
+                break
 
         print("[SENDTHREAD] Quitting due to thread condition!")
 
@@ -120,10 +173,7 @@ class Server():
                 print("[RECVTHREAD] Message: {data}")
                 continue
             except socket.timeout:
-                # Instead of using another thread, I just use a socket timeout to send pings
-                # Kills two birds with one stone as we can't wait forever due to threading Events
-                print("[RECVTHREAD] Timeout occurred waiting on server messages... sending ping!")
-                self.sock.send(f"PING :{ip}\r\n".encode())
+                # So threading Events work
                 continue
 
             # Handle IRC messages
@@ -139,13 +189,67 @@ class Server():
         if self._going_down.is_set():
             print("[RECVTHREAD] Quitting due to thread condition!")
 
+    # This is where we actually run the RCE commands and pipe the output
+    # back to IRC.
+    #
+    # No temp files here
+    def _handle_command(self, cmd, target_channel):
+        print(f"[CMDTHREAD] Running CMD {cmd}!")
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT, stdin = subprocess.DEVNULL,
+        start_new_session=True, text=False)
+
+        # Calculate maximum message size            
+        # 512 bytes is max IRC message with <IRCv3 and no cap neg
+        msg_without_data = b"PRIVMSG " + target_channel.encode() + b" :" + b"\r\n"
+        max_data_len = 512 - len(msg_without_data)
+        print(f"[CMDTHREAD] Reading from Popen pipe with len = {max_data_len}!")
+
+        while True:
+            # Check for quitting flag
+            if self._going_down.is_set():
+                print("[CMDTHREAD] Quitting due to thread condition!")
+                proc.kill()
+                break
+
+            # Check for kill children flag
+            if self._kill_cmd.is_set():
+                print(f"[CMDTHREAD] Quitting due to bot command!")
+                proc.kill()
+                self._kill_cmd.clear()
+                break
+
+            # Read a line up to max_data_len
+            # Replace invalid chars with escape sequences
+            line = proc.stdout.readline(max_data_len)
+            line = line.decode("utf8", errors = "backslashreplace")
+
+            # Check for empty data
+            if not line:
+                break
+
+            # Remove carraige return to avoid confusing IRC server
+            line = line.replace("\r", "")
+
+            # Strip rouge newlines from data
+            line = line.replace("\r\n", "")
+            line = line.replace("\n", "")
+
+            self.privmsg(target_channel, line)
+
+            # Break if our child exits for any reason
+            if proc.poll():
+                break
+
     # This function sends the user details to the IRC server
     # This isn't in the recv thread as we need to run it twice
     # if the nick is in use.
     def _send_userreg(self):       
-        self._msg_q.put(f"USER {self.realname} * * :{self.nickname}\r\n".encode())
-        self._msg_q.put(f"NICK {self.nickname}\r\n".encode())
-        self._msg_q.put(f"JOIN {self.channel}\r\n".encode())
+        self._send_q.put(f"USER {self.realname} * * :{self.nickname}\r\n".encode())
+        self._send_q.put(f"NICK {self.nickname}\r\n".encode())
+
+        for channel in self.channels:
+            print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Joining channel {channel}!")
+            self._send_q.put(f"JOIN {channel}\r\n".encode())
   
     # Used to strip ASCII control characters (such as terminal escape codes)
     # from text. Mainly to avoid unknown command errors from the IRC server.
@@ -153,6 +257,26 @@ class Server():
         control_char_re = r"[\x00-\x1F\x7F]"
         return re.sub(control_char_re, "*", text)
 
+    # This function clears the send queue by fetching all of the items in a loop 
+    # before the send thread can grab them.
+    def _clear_sendq(self):
+        print(f"[ONESHOTTHREAD] Clearing sendq of size {self._send_q.qsize()}")
+
+        try:
+            while True:
+                self._send_q.get_nowait()
+        except queue.Empty:
+            print("[ONESHOTTHREAD] Queue cleared!")
+            pass
+
+    # This function is used to run a function in a new daemonic thread without waiting.
+    # Used for command handlers, mainly clearsendq to speed up
+    # queue clearning during heavy server load.
+    def _oneshot_thread(self, func, args = []):
+        print(f"[SERVER] Starting oneshot thread for {func} with args = {args}")
+        thread = threading.Thread(target = func, args = args, daemon = True)
+        thread.start()
+
     # This is where the message parsing actually happens
     def _parse_message(self, msg):
         # Set optional values to None to avoid UnboundLocalError's
@@ -196,10 +320,32 @@ class Server():
         if trailing:
             params.append(trailing)
 
+        # Extract possible user info from prefix
+        if prefix:
+            message_source = prefix.partition("!")[0]
+
+            # Technically the target is ourselfs, but I change it to be the other user
+            # so other parts of the script can easily use it to know where to send output.
+            try:
+                if params[0] == self.nickname:
+                    target_channel = message_source
+                else:
+                    target_channel = params[0]
+            except IndexError:
+                # We got an empty command? what
+                # ZNC loves to send these
+                target_channel = None
+                
+        else:
+            message_source = None
+            target_channel = None
+
         return {
             "prefix": prefix,
             "command": command,
-            "params": params
+            "params": params,
+            "message_source": message_source,
+            "target_channel": target_channel
         }
 
     # This is where we handle messages that need to be
@@ -208,14 +354,17 @@ class Server():
         debug_msg = self._strip_control_chars(f"[RECVTHREAD] Got message from server! Message: {msg}")
         print(debug_msg)
 
+        # Handle PINGs from server
+        if msg["command"] == "PING":
+            self.sock.send(f"PONG {msg['params'][0]}\r\n".encode())
+            return 
+
         # Handle PRIVMSG
         if msg["command"] == "PRIVMSG":
-            msg_source = msg["params"][0]
-            # Properly decode private messages
-            if msg_source == self.nickname:
-                source_channel = msg["prefix"].partition("!~")[0]
-            else:
-                source_channel = msg_source
+            # Ignore empty PRIVMSGs, ZNC loves to send these.
+            if not len(msg["params"]):
+                print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Ignoring empty PRIVMSG from server!")
+                return
 
             # Check for command prefix and run it if we got one
             if msg["params"][-1].startswith(self.command_prefix):
@@ -228,101 +377,97 @@ class Server():
                     return
 
                 # Run CMDTHREAD
-                threading.Thread(target = self._handle_command, args = (cmd, source_channel, )).start()
+                threading.Thread(target = self._handle_command, args = (cmd, msg["target_channel"], )).start()
+            elif msg["params"][-1].startswith(self.bot_prefix):
+                # Get rid of the bot prefix
+                command = msg["params"][-1].strip(self.bot_prefix)
 
-            # Check for bot prefix
-            if msg["params"][-1].startswith(self.bot_prefix):
-                # Toggle flood protection in send thread
-                if "slow" in msg["params"][-1]:
-                    if self._msg_slow_down.is_set():
-                        self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Flood protection: Disabled\r\n".encode())
-                        self._msg_slow_down.clear()
-                    else:
-                        self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Flood protection: Enabled\r\n".encode())
-                        self._msg_slow_down.set()
-                if "sendq" in msg["params"][-1]:
-                    self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Send Queue Size: {self._msg_q.qsize()}\r\n".encode())
-                if "pid" in msg["params"][-1]:
-                    self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Bot PID: {os.getpid()}\r\n".encode())
-                if "die" in msg["params"][-1]:
-                    self.die()
-                if "floodstats" in msg["params"][-1]:
-                    self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Sleep Time: {self._msg_time}\r\n".encode())
-                    self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :Message Count: {self._msg_count}\r\n".encode())
+                # Get rid of any leading spaces
+                command = command.strip(" ")
+
+                # Ignore blank commands
+                if not command:
+                    return
+
+                # Lookup command
+                try:
+                    command_func = getattr(self, f"_cmd_{command}")
+                except AttributeError:
+                    # Invalid command
+                    print(f"[RECVTHREAD] _cmd_{command} was not found!")
+                    return
+
+                # Run command
+                print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Running command _cmd_{command}!")
+                command_func(msg)
 
         # Handle nickname already in use by appending the PID
         # and resending user reg
-        if msg["command"] == "433":
+        elif msg["command"] == "433":
             self.nickname = f"{self.nickname}-{os.getpid()}"
 
             print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Nickname already in use! Using: {self.nickname}")
             self._send_userreg()
-
         # Allow users to add bots to channel, but only if it's me
-        if msg["command"] == "INVITE":
-            msg_source = msg["params"][0]
-            source_user = msg["prefix"].partition("!~")[0]
-            if source_user in self.opper_nicknames:
-                print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Joining channel by user command!")
-                self._msg_q.put(f"JOIN {msg['params'][-1]}\r\n".encode())
+        elif msg["command"] == "INVITE":
+            if msg["message_source"] in self.opper_nicknames:
+                print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Joining channel by opper command from {msg['message_source']}!")
+                self._send_q.put(f"JOIN {msg['params'][-1]}\r\n".encode())
+                self.channels.append(msg["params"][-1])
+        elif msg["command"] == "NICK":
+            # Somebody changed their nick, or the server forced us to change ours.
+            if msg["message_source"] == self.nickname:
+                print(f"[RECVTHREAD] Server forced nickname change to {msg['params'][0]}!")
+                self.nickname = msg["params"][0]
 
-    # This is where we actually run the RCE commands and pipe the output
-    # back to IRC.
-    #
-    # No temp files here
-    def _handle_command(self, cmd, source_channel):
-        print(f"[CMDTHREAD] Running CMD {cmd}!")
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT, stdin = subprocess.DEVNULL,
-        start_new_session=False, text=False)
+    # These are where bot commands are implemented
+    # The format is _cmd_NAMEOFCOMMAND and it gets the class instance and the triggering message as parameters.
+    # The functions are looked up dynamically in _handle_message and executed.
+    def _cmd_help(self, msg):
+        for line in [f"Current bot prefix: {self.bot_prefix}", f"Current RCE prefix: {self.command_prefix}"]:
+            self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], line)
 
-        # Calculate maximum message size            
-        # 512 bytes is max IRC message with <IRCv3 and no cap neg
-        msg_without_data = b"PRIVMSG " + self.channel.encode() + b" :" + b"\r\n"
-        max_data_len = 512 - len(msg_without_data)
-        print(f"[CMDTHREAD] Reading from Popen pipe with len = {max_data_len}!")
+    def _cmd_sendqlen(self, msg):
+        self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], f"Send Queue Size: {self._send_q.qsize()}")
 
-        while True:
-            # Check for quitting flag
-            if self._going_down.is_set():
-                print("[CMDTHREAD] Quitting due to thread condition!")
-                proc.kill()
-                break
+    def _cmd_pid(self, msg):
+        self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], f"Bot PID: {os.getpid()}")
 
-            # Read a line up to max_data_len
-            # Replace invalid chars with escape sequences
-            line = proc.stdout.readline(max_data_len)
-            line = line.decode("utf8", errors = "backslashreplace")
+    def _cmd_die(self, msg):
+        # Tear down server
+        self.die()
 
-            # Check for empty data
-            if not line:
-                break
+    def _cmd_floodstats(self, msg):
+        self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], f"Sleep Time: {self._msg_time}")
+        self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], f"Message Count: {self._msg_count}")
 
-            # Remove carraige return to avoid confusing IRC server
-            line = line.replace("\r", "")
+    def _cmd_clearsendq(self, msg):
+        self.privmsg(msg["target_channel"], f"Clearing sendq of size {self._send_q.qsize()}", bypass_q = True)
+        self._oneshot_thread(self._clear_sendq)
 
-            # Strip rouge newlines from data
-            line = line.replace("\r\n", "")
-            line = line.replace("\n", "")
+    def _cmd_killcmd(self, msg):
+        print("[RECVTHREAD] Signaling CMDTHREAD(s) to kill their children!")
+        self._kill_cmd.set()
 
-            self._msg_q.put(b"PRIVMSG " + source_channel.encode() + b" :" + line.encode() + b"\r\n")
-
-        # Wait is required to fetch exit code
-        proc.wait()
-        self._msg_q.put(f"PRIVMSG {source_channel} :CMD {cmd} exited with returncode {proc.returncode}\r\n".encode())
+        # Also clear the sendq as this command will typically be used when doing
+        # something such as catting /dev/urandom
+        self._oneshot_thread(self._clear_sendq)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    serv = Server("username", "nickname", "##channel", opper_nicknames = ["opperhere"])
-    serv.connect("IP", 6667, sock_recvbuf = 8192)
-
+    serv = Server(**config.user, **config.bot)
+    serv.connect(**config.server)
 
     # Allow for the user to send raw IRC messages
     # These bypass the send queue
     while True:
         try:
-            rawcmd = input()
-            serv.sock.send(f"{rawcmd}\r\n".encode())
+            if sys.stdin.isatty():
+                rawcmd = input()
+                serv.sock.send(f"{rawcmd}\r\n".encode())
+            else:
+                serv._going_down.wait()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             print("[MAINTHREAD] Interrupt receieved... server going down!")
             print("[MAINTHREAD] Could take up to 60 seconds for socket timeout!")
             serv.die()
-            raise SystemExit(0)
+            raise SystemExit(0)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/rce.service b/rce.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1017ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rce.service
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=RCE IRC Bot
+After=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=/root/irc2bash/main.py
+Restart=always
+User=root
+Group=root
+
+# These require a recent version of systemd, but they are useful to avoid the users
+# thrasing your SSD with excessive IO.
+# IOWriteBandwidthMax=/dev/sda 10M
+# IOReadBandwidthMax=/dev/sda 25M
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/skel_config.py b/skel_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce12bf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skel_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+user = {
+	"realname": "setme",
+	"nickname": "setme",
+	"channels": ["##join", "##these", "##channels"]
+}
+
+server = {
+	"ip": "irc.serv.net",
+	"port": 6667,
+	"ssl": False
+	"sock_timeout": 60,
+	"sock_sendbuf": 512,
+	"sock_recvbuf": 512
+}
+
+bot = {
+	"command_prefix": "$!",
+	"bot_prefix": "$$",
+	"opper_nicknames": ["nicknamehere"],
+
+	# 512 messages * 512 bytes maximum per message = 262144 bytes max message queue size
+	# Adjust for RAM needs to avoid cat /dev/urandom from causing OOM
+	"message_queue_max_size": 512
+}