diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index edddaef82..22aa5c793 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ running:
 
 ```
 sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nginx/ && sudo nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf
-STACK=prod gunicorn -D --workers 4 -b unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock --worker-class gevent -t 2000 application:application
+STACK=prod gunicorn -c gunicorn_config.py
 ```
 
 start the workers:
diff --git a/gunicorn_config.py b/gunicorn_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59141b06d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gunicorn_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+bind = 'unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock'
+workers = 8
+worker_class = 'gevent'
+timeout = 2000
+daemon = True