diff --git a/NetfluxWebsocketSrv.js b/NetfluxWebsocketSrv.js
index bfb8e4753..98d79f72f 100644
--- a/NetfluxWebsocketSrv.js
+++ b/NetfluxWebsocketSrv.js
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 ;(function () { 'use strict';
 const Crypto = require('crypto');
 const Nacl = require('tweetnacl');
-const LogStore = require('./storage/LogStore');
-
 
 const LAG_MAX_BEFORE_DISCONNECT = 30000;
 const LAG_MAX_BEFORE_PING = 15000;
@@ -11,7 +9,6 @@ const HISTORY_KEEPER_ID = Crypto.randomBytes(8).toString('hex');
 const USE_HISTORY_KEEPER = true;
 const USE_FILE_BACKUP_STORAGE = true;
 
-
 let dropUser;
 let historyKeeperKeys = {};
 
@@ -79,10 +76,15 @@ dropUser = function (ctx, user) {
         let chan = ctx.channels[chanName];
         let idx = chan.indexOf(user);
         if (idx < 0) { return; }
-        console.log("Removing ["+user.id+"] from channel ["+chanName+"]");
+
+        if (ctx.verbose) {
+            console.log("Removing ["+user.id+"] from channel ["+chanName+"]");
+        }
         chan.splice(idx, 1);
         if (chan.length === 0) {
-            console.log("Removing empty channel ["+chanName+"]");
+            if (ctx.verbose) {
+                console.log("Removing empty channel ["+chanName+"]");
+            }
             delete ctx.channels[chanName];
             delete historyKeeperKeys[chanName];
 
@@ -94,7 +96,9 @@ dropUser = function (ctx, user) {
                         ctx.store.removeChannel(chanName, function (err) {
                             if (err) { console.error("[removeChannelErr]: %s", err); }
                             else {
-                                console.log("Deleted channel [%s] history from database...", chanName);
+                                if (ctx.verbose) {
+                                    console.log("Deleted channel [%s] history from database...", chanName);
+                                }
                             }
                         });
                     }, ctx.config.channelRemovalTimeout);
@@ -253,7 +257,7 @@ let run = module.exports.run = function (storage, socketServer, config) {
         users: {},
         channels: {},
         timeouts: {},
-        store: (USE_FILE_BACKUP_STORAGE) ? LogStore.create('messages.log', storage) : storage,
+        store: storage,
         config: config
     };
     setInterval(function () {
diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index e05606374..c490698b3 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ app.get('/api/config', function(req, res){
 var httpServer = httpsOpts ? Https.createServer(httpsOpts, app) : Http.createServer(app);
 
 httpServer.listen(config.httpPort,config.httpAddress,function(){
-    console.log('listening on %s',config.httpPort);
+    console.log('[%s] listening on port %s', new Date().toISOString(), config.httpPort);
 });
 
 var wsConfig = { server: httpServer };
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ if (config.websocketPort !== config.httpPort) {
 }
 var wsSrv = new WebSocketServer(wsConfig);
 Storage.create(config, function (store) {
-    console.log('DB connected');
     NetfluxSrv.run(store, wsSrv, config);
     WebRTCSrv.run(wsSrv);
-});
\ No newline at end of file
+});
diff --git a/storage/LogStore.js b/storage/LogStore.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 14761e6b7..000000000
--- a/storage/LogStore.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-var Fs = require("fs");
-
-var message = function(file, msg) {
-    file.write(msg+"\n");
-};
-
-var create = module.exports.create = function(filePath, backingStore) {
-
-    var file = Fs.createWriteStream(filePath, {flags: 'a+'});
-
-    var originalMessageFunction = backingStore.message;
-
-    backingStore.message = function(channel, msg, callback) {
-        message(file, msg);
-        originalMessageFunction(channel, msg, callback);
-    };
-
-    return backingStore;
-};
diff --git a/storage/file.js b/storage/file.js
index 7503791a8..162894b63 100644
--- a/storage/file.js
+++ b/storage/file.js
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ module.exports.create = function (conf, cb) {
         root: conf.filePath || './datastore',
         channels: { },
     };
-    console.log('storing data in ' + env.root);
     Fs.mkdir(env.root, function (err) {
         if (err && err.code !== 'EEXIST') {
             // TODO: somehow return a nice error