diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index df605ea..e99841e 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -22,24 +22,6 @@ services:
     image: "valkey/valkey:7.2-alpine"
     restart: always
 
-  postgres:
-    image: postgres:16-alpine
-    shm_size: 128mb
-    volumes:
-      - ../postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
-      - ${PWD}/scripts/postgres-init-db.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/postgres-init-db.sh
-    env_file: .env
-    environment:
-      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}"
-      POSTGRES_USER: "hackathons_canada_superuser"
-      POSTGRES_DB: "hackathons"
-    restart: always
-    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD", "pg_isready -U ${POSTGRES_USER}", "-d", "${POSTGRES_DB}"]
-      interval: 5s
-      timeout: 20s
-      retries: 5
-
   celery_worker:
     build:
       context: .
diff --git a/docs/internal/migrations/redirects.md b/docs/internal/migrations/redirects.md
index 022bb54..55edf7b 100644
--- a/docs/internal/migrations/redirects.md
+++ b/docs/internal/migrations/redirects.md
@@ -74,4 +74,4 @@ python manage.py migrate socialaccount zero
 
 # Step 4: Reapply migrations
 python manage.py migrate
-```
+``` 
diff --git a/scripts/django/start b/scripts/django/start
index 0b9e994..7da3a4d 100644
--- a/scripts/django/start
+++ b/scripts/django/start
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ set -o nounset
 python manage.py migrate --no-input
 python manage.py collectstatic --no-input
 
-gunicorn -w 1 --bind 0.0.0.0:22300 hackathons_canada.wsgi:application
+gunicorn -w 2 --bind 0.0.0.0:22300 hackathons_canada.wsgi:application
diff --git a/scripts/entrypoint.sh b/scripts/entrypoint.sh
index 932ebd5..5ef4e97 100644
--- a/scripts/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/scripts/entrypoint.sh
@@ -8,32 +8,32 @@ set -o pipefail
 set -o nounset
 source /opt/pysetup/.venv/bin/activate
 
-
-
-postgres_ready() {
-/opt/pysetup/.venv/bin/python << END
-import sys
-
-import psycopg
-
-try:
-    psycopg.connect(
-        dbname="${POSTGRES_DB}",
-        user="${POSTGRES_USER}",
-        password="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}",
-        host="${POSTGRES_HOST}",
-        port="${POSTGRES_PORT}",
-    )
-except psycopg.OperationalError:
-    sys.exit(-1)
-sys.exit(0)
-
-END
-}
-until postgres_ready; do
-  >&2 echo 'Waiting for PostgreSQL to become available...'
-  sleep 1
-done
->&2 echo 'PostgreSQL is available'
+#
+#
+#postgres_ready() {
+#/opt/pysetup/.venv/bin/python << END
+#import sys
+#
+#import psycopg
+#
+#try:
+#    psycopg.connect(
+#        dbname="${POSTGRES_DB}",
+#        user="${POSTGRES_USER}",
+#        password="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}",
+#        host="${POSTGRES_HOST}",
+#        port="${POSTGRES_PORT}",
+#    )
+#except psycopg.OperationalError:
+#    sys.exit(-1)
+#sys.exit(0)
+#
+#END
+#}
+#until postgres_ready; do
+#  >&2 echo 'Waiting for PostgreSQL to become available...'
+#  sleep 1
+#done
+#>&2 echo 'PostgreSQL is available'
 
 exec "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/postgres-init-db.sh b/scripts/postgres-init-db.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index c28576b..0000000
--- a/scripts/postgres-init-db.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eu
-
-echo '=== SETUP DATABASE'
-
-echo '--- setting up users'
-
-psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 "$POSTGRES_DB" <<EOF
-CREATE USER hacker WITH PASSWORD 'change_me_pleaseeeeeeeeee';
-ALTER ROLE hacker SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
-ALTER ROLE hacker SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed';
-ALTER ROLE hacker SET timezone TO 'UTC';
-GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE hackathons TO hacker;
-\c hackathons
-GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO hacker;
-EOF
-
-#cat ./pg_dump.sql.gz | gzip -d | psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username "$POSTGRES_USER" --dbname "$POSTGRES_DB" # update pg_dump.sql.gz