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+to prepare a new host:
+
+```
+sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:nginx/stable
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install -y git python-virtualenv python-dev phantomjs 
+sudo apt-get install -y nginx-full
+```
+
+check out the code:
+
+```
+git clone https://bitbucket.org/yackob03/quay.git
+virtualenv --distribute venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
 running:
 
+```
 sudo nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf
 STACK=prod gunicorn -D --workers 4 -b unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock --worker-class eventlet -t 500 application:application
+```
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diff --git a/seo-snapshots/README.md b/seo-snapshots/README.md
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+Follow the instructions to set up a host of the whole project before attempting to run.
+
+to run once:
+
+```
+python make_snapshot.py
+```
+
+cron line to update every 30 minutes:
+
+```
+0,30 * * * * cd /home/ubuntu/quay/seo-snapshots && ../venv/bin/python make_snapshot.py
+```
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