diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b394eecf..a37e0d31d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ running:
 
 ```
 sudo nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf
-STACK=prod gunicorn -D --workers 4 -b unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock --worker-class eventlet -t 2000 application:application
+STACK=prod gunicorn -D --workers 4 -b unix:/tmp/gunicorn.sock --worker-class gevent -t 2000 application:application
 ```
 
 set up the snapshot script:
diff --git a/requirements-nover.txt b/requirements-nover.txt
index dc0d069a0..f42a8a90d 100644
--- a/requirements-nover.txt
+++ b/requirements-nover.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ boto
 pymysql
 stripe
 gunicorn
-eventlet
+gevent
 mixpanel-py
 beautifulsoup4
 marisa-trie
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 48a6fffa3..712c818c8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ blinker==1.3
 boto==2.17.0
 distribute==0.6.34
 ecdsa==0.10
-eventlet==0.14.0
+gevent==0.13.8
 greenlet==0.4.1
 gunicorn==18.0
 html5lib==1.0b3