diff --git a/deploy/start_celery.sh b/deploy/start_celery.sh
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+#! /usr/bin/env
+# start-server.sh
+echo "celery starting up"
+cd /projects
+poetry run celery -A dashboard worker -l info
diff --git a/deploy/start_server.sh b/deploy/start_server.sh
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+#! /usr/bin/env
+# start-server.sh
+
+if [ "$DEPLOY_ENV" = "STAGING" ] || [ "$DEPLOY_ENV" = "PRODUCTION" ]
+then
+ echo "Waiting for mysql..."
+ while ! nc -z db 3306; do
+   sleep 0.1
+ done
+ echo "MySQL started"
+fi
+
+echo "NGINX starting up dataweb server"
+cd /projects
+celery -A dataweb beat -l INFO --scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseScheduler &
+python manage.py migrate --noinput
+python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
+python manage.py init_admin
+gunicorn dataweb.wsgi --user www-data --bind 0.0.0.0:8010 --workers 3 --timeout 90 &
+memcached -u root &
+nginx -g "daemon off;"