diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a46dab1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+*.dump
+*.sql
+*_cache
+.git
+data/*
+site/*
+static_root
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7000ab1..00eb3fe 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ GoogleV3_cache
 
 # Private files
 .env
+env-*
 example_project/local_settings.py
 
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c55cf5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+FROM texastribune/gunicorn
+MAINTAINER cchang@texastribune.org
+
+RUN sed -i "s/wsgi:application/example_project.wsgi:application/" /etc/supervisor/conf.d/gunicorn.supervisor.conf
+
+ADD . /app
+ENV PYTHONPATH /app
+RUN pip install --quiet -r requirements.txt
+# needed to keep manage.py from trying to import too much
+ENV DEBUG 0
+RUN python example_project/manage.py collectstatic --noinput
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 339c050..7154592 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -68,3 +68,24 @@ serve:
 
 
 .PHONY: help test resetdb scrape pushdb site upload serve
+
+# DOCKER #
+build:
+	docker build -t texastribune/elevators .
+
+shell:
+	docker run --rm --name elevators -i -t --link pgplus:postgis \
+	  --volumes-from elevators-wsgi \
+	  --env-file env-docker --entrypoint /bin/bash texastribune/elevators
+
+gunicorn:
+	docker run --detach --name elevators-wsgi --link pgplus:postgis \
+	  --env-file env-docker -p 8000:8000 texastribune/elevators
+
+# download script doesn't need concurrency so only use -c 1
+benchmark: gunicorn
+	sleep 5
+	docker run --rm --link elevators-wsgi:wsgi -t \
+	  zz ab -n 10 http://wsgi:8000/
+	docker logs elevators-wsgi
+	docker rm -f elevators-wsgi
diff --git a/bin/download_site.sh b/bin/download_site.sh
index b32efb5..7eab998 100755
--- a/bin/download_site.sh
+++ b/bin/download_site.sh
@@ -1,28 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
 # Instructions:
 #
 # run from project root directory
 
-set +e
-MANAGE="python ./example_project/manage.py"
-PORT=8008
-
-
-DEBUG=0 $MANAGE runserver --nothreading --noreload $PORT &
-pid=$!
-echo "runserver pid: $pid"
-
-# make sure to kill the server if terminated early
-trap "kill $pid; echo bye $pid" EXIT
+# Make sure the docker image is up to date
+make build gunicorn
+PORT=$(docker port elevators-site 8000 | cut -d : -f 2)
 
 # give time for the servers to get up
-sleep 1
-
-$MANAGE collectstatic --noinput
+sleep 3
 
 mkdir -p site
 cd site && wget -r localhost:$PORT --force-html -e robots=off -nH -nv --max-redirect 0
-
-# kill server, run in a subprocess so we can suppress "Terminated" message
-(kill $pid 2>&1) > /dev/null
-
-echo "bye"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 47baeb2..dfa4c3e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Django==1.6.5
+Django==1.6.6
 
-dj-database-url>=0.2.1
-project_runpy
-psycopg2>=2.4.5
-gunicorn==0.17.2
+dj-database-url==0.3.0
+project_runpy==0.3.1
+psycopg2==2.5.4
+gunicorn==19.1.1