diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/bootstrap.json b/chef/cookbooks/centos/bootstrap.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a6065ab26c83d2c886be4df5648324d8d8052c97..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/bootstrap.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"recipes": ["centos::bootstrap" ] } 
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/main.json b/chef/cookbooks/centos/main.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ef7610f0feb458cebbd8216f15a8731510746b3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/main.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"recipes": ["centos::main" ] } 
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/bootstrap.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/bootstrap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index b5c86087665926fc65a22025eca12461951c82ab..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/bootstrap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-execute "bundler deps" do
-  command "yum install -y cpio"
-end
-execute "nokogiri deps" do
-  command "yum install -y libxml2-devel libxslt-devel"
-end
-execute "eventmachine deps" do
-  command "yum install -y gcc-c++"
-end
-execute "ssl lib" do
-  command "yum install -y openssl-devel"
-end
-execute "htop" do
-  command "yum install -y htop psmisc screen"
-end
-
-execute "rvm deps" do
-  command "yum install -y bzip2"
-end
-
-def harden_ruby(ruby_string)
-  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/wrappers/#{ruby_string}/*").each do |file|
-    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
-      to file
-    end
-  end
-  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/gems/#{ruby_string}/bin/*").each do |file|
-    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
-      to file
-    end
-  end
-
-end
-
-harden_ruby("ree-1.8.7-2010.02")
-
-include_recipe "centos::post_bootstrap"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/image_magick.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/image_magick.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e4368fedd13596d50bebaea226f35c2dfed58d4..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/image_magick.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-execute "install ImageMagick" do
-  command "yum install -y ImageMagick"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/java.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/java.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index ca94b42fd279993a999977d90a2ec589c96d1387..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/java.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-execute "JAVA!! for Jammit" do
-  command "yum install -y java"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/main.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/main.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 476b474718cd65fe6394f0dda18e837a7daf5106..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/main.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-include_recipe "centos::image_magick"
-include_recipe "centos::mysql"
-include_recipe "common::main"
-include_recipe "centos::nginx"
-include_recipe "centos::redis"
-include_recipe "centos::curl"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/mysql.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/mysql.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 184f4932ed8015201372aacb0ce3935459249c2c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/mysql.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-execute "install mysql" do
-  command "yum install -y mysql mysql-server mysql-devel"
-end
-
-execute "start mysql service to create the system tables" do
-  command "service mysqld start"
-end
-
-execute "stop service again" do
-  command "service mysqld stop"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/nginx.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/nginx.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index d7061e19876c5ea980297814d2bcf6a914db8a62..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/nginx.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-execute "pcre dependency" do
-  command "yum install -y pcre-devel"
-end
-include_recipe "common::nginx"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d100269b5760baa2e7785634ccfcbaf4f99ce71..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-include_recipe "centos::java"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/redis.rb b/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/redis.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index db83ff76023bce9aecc97bc7da9b78b4597a2e08..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/redis.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-
-execute "refresh yum" do
-  command "yum update -y"
-end
-
-execute "install redis" do
-  command "yum install -y redis"
-end
-
-cookbook_file "/usr/local/etc/redis.conf" do
-  source "redis.conf"
-end
-
-execute "change redis.conf permissions" do
-  command "chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/redis.conf"
-end
-
-execute "make the redis db directory" do
-  command "mkdir -p /usr/local/var/db/redis"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/backup.rb b/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/backup.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index a84bc045506e600766e9839e367ce723ec9af4fc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/backup.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-execute "Remove Any Pervious Cronjob" do
-  command "crontab -r || true" 
-end
-
-execute "Add the current cronjob" do
-  command "crontab /usr/local/app/diaspora/chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/backupcron.txt"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/iptables.rb b/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/iptables.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index f31d17a98c7abf66993abf15a9685773cff8b520..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/iptables.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-cookbook_file "/etc/sysconfig/iptables" do
-  source "iptables"
-end
-
-execute "restart iptables" do  #TODO only do this if the file changes
-  command "/etc/init.d/iptables restart"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/main.rb b/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/main.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d35db472c9768551d20076d91d89fa39889f876..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/main.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-include_recipe "common::iptables"
-include_recipe "common::daemontools"
-include_recipe "common::splunk"
-include_recipe "common::backup"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/bootstrap.json b/chef/cookbooks/debian/bootstrap.json
deleted file mode 100644
index aba0834616de041ae0369004e0690eff4e145ff9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/bootstrap.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"recipes": ["debian::bootstrap" ] } 
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/files/default/redis.conf b/chef/cookbooks/debian/files/default/redis.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f26920917c54320a0dd1f5e43e8bfeff9cf8a17..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/files/default/redis.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,312 +0,0 @@
-# Redis configuration file example
-
-# Note on units: when memory size is needed, it is possible to specifiy
-# it in the usual form of 1k 5GB 4M and so forth:
-#
-# 1k => 1000 bytes
-# 1kb => 1024 bytes
-# 1m => 1000000 bytes
-# 1mb => 1024*1024 bytes
-# 1g => 1000000000 bytes
-# 1gb => 1024*1024*1024 bytes
-#
-# units are case insensitive so 1GB 1Gb 1gB are all the same.
-
-# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
-# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /usr/local/var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
-daemonize no
-
-# When running daemonized, Redis writes a pid file in /usr/local/var/run/redis.pid by
-# default. You can specify a custom pid file location here.
-pidfile /usr/local/var/run/redis.pid
-
-# Accept connections on the specified port, default is 6379
-port 6379
-
-# If you want you can bind a single interface, if the bind option is not
-# specified all the interfaces will listen for incoming connections.
-#
-# bind 127.0.0.1
-
-# Close the connection after a client is idle for N seconds (0 to disable)
-timeout 300
-
-# Set server verbosity to 'debug'
-# it can be one of:
-# debug (a lot of information, useful for development/testing)
-# verbose (many rarely useful info, but not a mess like the debug level)
-# notice (moderately verbose, what you want in production probably)
-# warning (only very important / critical messages are logged)
-loglevel verbose
-
-# Specify the log file name. Also 'stdout' can be used to force
-# Redis to log on the standard output. Note that if you use standard
-# output for logging but daemonize, logs will be sent to /dev/null
-logfile stdout
-
-# Set the number of databases. The default database is DB 0, you can select
-# a different one on a per-connection basis using SELECT <dbid> where
-# dbid is a number between 0 and 'databases'-1
-databases 16
-
-################################ SNAPSHOTTING  #################################
-#
-# Save the DB on disk:
-#
-#   save <seconds> <changes>
-#
-#   Will save the DB if both the given number of seconds and the given
-#   number of write operations against the DB occurred.
-#
-#   In the example below the behaviour will be to save:
-#   after 900 sec (15 min) if at least 1 key changed
-#   after 300 sec (5 min) if at least 10 keys changed
-#   after 60 sec if at least 10000 keys changed
-#
-#   Note: you can disable saving at all commenting all the "save" lines.
-
-save 900 1
-save 300 10
-save 60 10000
-
-# Compress string objects using LZF when dump .rdb databases?
-# For default that's set to 'yes' as it's almost always a win.
-# If you want to save some CPU in the saving child set it to 'no' but
-# the dataset will likely be bigger if you have compressible values or keys.
-rdbcompression yes
-
-# The filename where to dump the DB
-dbfilename dump.rdb
-
-# The working directory.
-#
-# The DB will be written inside this directory, with the filename specified
-# above using the 'dbfilename' configuration directive.
-# 
-# Also the Append Only File will be created inside this directory.
-# 
-# Note that you must specify a directory here, not a file name.
-dir /usr/local/var/db/redis/
-
-################################# REPLICATION #################################
-
-# Master-Slave replication. Use slaveof to make a Redis instance a copy of
-# another Redis server. Note that the configuration is local to the slave
-# so for example it is possible to configure the slave to save the DB with a
-# different interval, or to listen to another port, and so on.
-#
-# slaveof <masterip> <masterport>
-
-# If the master is password protected (using the "requirepass" configuration
-# directive below) it is possible to tell the slave to authenticate before
-# starting the replication synchronization process, otherwise the master will
-# refuse the slave request.
-#
-# masterauth <master-password>
-
-################################## SECURITY ###################################
-
-# Require clients to issue AUTH <PASSWORD> before processing any other
-# commands.  This might be useful in environments in which you do not trust
-# others with access to the host running redis-server.
-#
-# This should stay commented out for backward compatibility and because most
-# people do not need auth (e.g. they run their own servers).
-# 
-# Warning: since Redis is pretty fast an outside user can try up to
-# 150k passwords per second against a good box. This means that you should
-# use a very strong password otherwise it will be very easy to break.
-#
-# requirepass foobared
-
-################################### LIMITS ####################################
-
-# Set the max number of connected clients at the same time. By default there
-# is no limit, and it's up to the number of file descriptors the Redis process
-# is able to open. The special value '0' means no limits.
-# Once the limit is reached Redis will close all the new connections sending
-# an error 'max number of clients reached'.
-#
-# maxclients 128
-
-# Don't use more memory than the specified amount of bytes.
-# When the memory limit is reached Redis will try to remove keys with an
-# EXPIRE set. It will try to start freeing keys that are going to expire
-# in little time and preserve keys with a longer time to live.
-# Redis will also try to remove objects from free lists if possible.
-#
-# If all this fails, Redis will start to reply with errors to commands
-# that will use more memory, like SET, LPUSH, and so on, and will continue
-# to reply to most read-only commands like GET.
-#
-# WARNING: maxmemory can be a good idea mainly if you want to use Redis as a
-# 'state' server or cache, not as a real DB. When Redis is used as a real
-# database the memory usage will grow over the weeks, it will be obvious if
-# it is going to use too much memory in the long run, and you'll have the time
-# to upgrade. With maxmemory after the limit is reached you'll start to get
-# errors for write operations, and this may even lead to DB inconsistency.
-#
-# maxmemory <bytes>
-
-############################## APPEND ONLY MODE ###############################
-
-# By default Redis asynchronously dumps the dataset on disk. If you can live
-# with the idea that the latest records will be lost if something like a crash
-# happens this is the preferred way to run Redis. If instead you care a lot
-# about your data and don't want to that a single record can get lost you should
-# enable the append only mode: when this mode is enabled Redis will append
-# every write operation received in the file appendonly.aof. This file will
-# be read on startup in order to rebuild the full dataset in memory.
-#
-# Note that you can have both the async dumps and the append only file if you
-# like (you have to comment the "save" statements above to disable the dumps).
-# Still if append only mode is enabled Redis will load the data from the
-# log file at startup ignoring the dump.rdb file.
-#
-# IMPORTANT: Check the BGREWRITEAOF to check how to rewrite the append
-# log file in background when it gets too big.
-
-appendonly no
-
-# The name of the append only file (default: "appendonly.aof")
-# appendfilename appendonly.aof
-
-# The fsync() call tells the Operating System to actually write data on disk
-# instead to wait for more data in the output buffer. Some OS will really flush 
-# data on disk, some other OS will just try to do it ASAP.
-#
-# Redis supports three different modes:
-#
-# no: don't fsync, just let the OS flush the data when it wants. Faster.
-# always: fsync after every write to the append only log . Slow, Safest.
-# everysec: fsync only if one second passed since the last fsync. Compromise.
-#
-# The default is "everysec" that's usually the right compromise between
-# speed and data safety. It's up to you to understand if you can relax this to
-# "no" that will will let the operating system flush the output buffer when
-# it wants, for better performances (but if you can live with the idea of
-# some data loss consider the default persistence mode that's snapshotting),
-# or on the contrary, use "always" that's very slow but a bit safer than
-# everysec.
-#
-# If unsure, use "everysec".
-
-# appendfsync always
-appendfsync everysec
-# appendfsync no
-
-################################ VIRTUAL MEMORY ###############################
-
-# Virtual Memory allows Redis to work with datasets bigger than the actual
-# amount of RAM needed to hold the whole dataset in memory.
-# In order to do so very used keys are taken in memory while the other keys
-# are swapped into a swap file, similarly to what operating systems do
-# with memory pages.
-#
-# To enable VM just set 'vm-enabled' to yes, and set the following three
-# VM parameters accordingly to your needs.
-
-vm-enabled no
-# vm-enabled yes
-
-# This is the path of the Redis swap file. As you can guess, swap files
-# can't be shared by different Redis instances, so make sure to use a swap
-# file for every redis process you are running. Redis will complain if the
-# swap file is already in use.
-#
-# The best kind of storage for the Redis swap file (that's accessed at random) 
-# is a Solid State Disk (SSD).
-#
-# *** WARNING *** if you are using a shared hosting the default of putting
-# the swap file under /tmp is not secure. Create a dir with access granted
-# only to Redis user and configure Redis to create the swap file there.
-vm-swap-file /tmp/redis.swap
-
-# vm-max-memory configures the VM to use at max the specified amount of
-# RAM. Everything that deos not fit will be swapped on disk *if* possible, that
-# is, if there is still enough contiguous space in the swap file.
-#
-# With vm-max-memory 0 the system will swap everything it can. Not a good
-# default, just specify the max amount of RAM you can in bytes, but it's
-# better to leave some margin. For instance specify an amount of RAM
-# that's more or less between 60 and 80% of your free RAM.
-vm-max-memory 0
-
-# Redis swap files is split into pages. An object can be saved using multiple
-# contiguous pages, but pages can't be shared between different objects.
-# So if your page is too big, small objects swapped out on disk will waste
-# a lot of space. If you page is too small, there is less space in the swap
-# file (assuming you configured the same number of total swap file pages).
-#
-# If you use a lot of small objects, use a page size of 64 or 32 bytes.
-# If you use a lot of big objects, use a bigger page size.
-# If unsure, use the default :)
-vm-page-size 32
-
-# Number of total memory pages in the swap file.
-# Given that the page table (a bitmap of free/used pages) is taken in memory,
-# every 8 pages on disk will consume 1 byte of RAM.
-#
-# The total swap size is vm-page-size * vm-pages
-#
-# With the default of 32-bytes memory pages and 134217728 pages Redis will
-# use a 4 GB swap file, that will use 16 MB of RAM for the page table.
-#
-# It's better to use the smallest acceptable value for your application,
-# but the default is large in order to work in most conditions.
-vm-pages 134217728
-
-# Max number of VM I/O threads running at the same time.
-# This threads are used to read/write data from/to swap file, since they
-# also encode and decode objects from disk to memory or the reverse, a bigger
-# number of threads can help with big objects even if they can't help with
-# I/O itself as the physical device may not be able to couple with many
-# reads/writes operations at the same time.
-#
-# The special value of 0 turn off threaded I/O and enables the blocking
-# Virtual Memory implementation.
-vm-max-threads 4
-
-############################### ADVANCED CONFIG ###############################
-
-# Glue small output buffers together in order to send small replies in a
-# single TCP packet. Uses a bit more CPU but most of the times it is a win
-# in terms of number of queries per second. Use 'yes' if unsure.
-glueoutputbuf yes
-
-# Hashes are encoded in a special way (much more memory efficient) when they
-# have at max a given numer of elements, and the biggest element does not
-# exceed a given threshold. You can configure this limits with the following
-# configuration directives.
-hash-max-zipmap-entries 64
-hash-max-zipmap-value 512
-
-# Active rehashing uses 1 millisecond every 100 milliseconds of CPU time in
-# order to help rehashing the main Redis hash table (the one mapping top-level
-# keys to values). The hash table implementation redis uses (see dict.c)
-# performs a lazy rehashing: the more operation you run into an hash table
-# that is rhashing, the more rehashing "steps" are performed, so if the
-# server is idle the rehashing is never complete and some more memory is used
-# by the hash table.
-# 
-# The default is to use this millisecond 10 times every second in order to
-# active rehashing the main dictionaries, freeing memory when possible.
-#
-# If unsure:
-# use "activerehashing no" if you have hard latency requirements and it is
-# not a good thing in your environment that Redis can reply form time to time
-# to queries with 2 milliseconds delay.
-#
-# use "activerehashing yes" if you don't have such hard requirements but
-# want to free memory asap when possible.
-activerehashing yes
-
-################################## INCLUDES ###################################
-
-# Include one or more other config files here.  This is useful if you
-# have a standard template that goes to all redis server but also need
-# to customize a few per-server settings.  Include files can include
-# other files, so use this wisely.
-#
-# include /path/to/local.conf
-# include /path/to/other.conf
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/main.json b/chef/cookbooks/debian/main.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7afec5fd065cdc43672802a09aa3c0429bfb1fcd..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/main.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"recipes": ["debian::main" ] } 
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/bootstrap.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/bootstrap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 416ee1eedfa60bf3a85250db2267116d0cb717d2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/bootstrap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-execute "bundler deps" do
-  command "apt-get install -y cpio"
-end
-execute "nokogiri deps" do
-  command "apt-get install -y libxml2-dev libxslt-dev"
-end
-
-execute "eventmachine deps" do
-  command "apt-get install -y gcc-c++"
-end
-
-execute "ssl lib" do
-  command "apt-get install -y libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby"
-end
-
-execute "curl" do
-  command "apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev"
-end
-
-execute "ffi" do
-  command "apt-get install -y libffi-ruby"
-end
-
-
-execute "htop" do
-  command "apt-get install -y htop psmisc screen"
-end
-
-execute "rvm deps" do
-  command "apt-get install -y bzip2"
-end
-
-def harden_ruby(ruby_string)
-  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/wrappers/#{ruby_string}/*").each do |file|
-    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
-      to file
-    end
-  end
-  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/gems/#{ruby_string}/bin/*").each do |file|
-    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
-      to file
-    end
-  end
-
-end
-
-harden_ruby("ree-1.8.7-2010.02")
-
-include_recipe "debian::post_bootstrap"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/image_magick.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/image_magick.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index eed14458eb63e147602cea0caadb7e86d4dbf357..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/image_magick.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-execute "install ImageMagick" do
-  command "apt-get install -y imagemagick libmagick9-dev"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/java.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/java.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 72ee1176eb71375907b8e9b999ee1ad5dafa9f5e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/java.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-execute "JAVA!! for Jammit" do
-  command "apt-get install -y java"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/main.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/main.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d284929cca538673964c1b9de48083878abf01d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/main.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-include_recipe "debian::image_magick"
-include_recipe "debian::mysql"
-include_recipe "common::main"
-include_recipe "debian::nginx"
-include_recipe "debian::redis"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/mysql.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/mysql.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index d300d75d3e8211076f62189b528abe606483f2b0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/mysql.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-execute "install mysql" do
-  command "apt-get install -y mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/nginx.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/nginx.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index c778792d200b219e58975273cf73a3259ba4ee2e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/nginx.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-execute "pcre dependency" do
-  command "apt-get install -y libpcre3 libpcre3-dev"
-end
-include_recipe "common::nginx"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 277cd3ee829e16d7de41ab78c95acd0867021433..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/post_bootstrap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-include_recipe "debian::java"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/redis.rb b/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/redis.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index ccc34cee27f02e63000da88c8f409f0c2936981c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/chef/cookbooks/debian/recipes/redis.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-execute "download redis" do
-  command "wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb"
-end
-
-execute "install redis" do
-  command "dpkg -i redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb"
-end
-
-cookbook_file "/usr/local/etc/redis.conf" do
-  source "redis.conf"
-end
-
-execute "change redis.conf permissions" do
-  command "chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/redis.conf"
-end
-
-execute "make the redis db directory" do
-  command "mkdir -p /usr/local/var/db/redis"
-end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/bootstrap.json b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/bootstrap.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0312982f50b47134bdf740f66a87c4b39a22a952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/bootstrap.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"run_list": ["recipe[diaspora::bootstrap"]}
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/backupcron.txt b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/backupcron.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/backupcron.txt
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/backupcron.txt
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/crossdomain.xml b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/crossdomain.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/crossdomain.xml
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/crossdomain.xml
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/iptables b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/iptables
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/iptables
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/iptables
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/files/default/redis.conf b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/redis.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/centos/files/default/redis.conf
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/redis.conf
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/files/default/startcom-bundle.crt b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/startcom-bundle.crt
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/centos/files/default/startcom-bundle.crt
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/startcom-bundle.crt
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/thins.yml b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/thins.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/files/default/thins.yml
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/files/default/thins.yml
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/main.json b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/main.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65f35d9ff96e1b69d3f58329afb28b760fb9d16d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/main.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"run_list": ["recipe[diaspora::main]"]} 
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/backup.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/backup.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39ac465f9f91ad392e3a67c61b5c2b04d1978139
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/backup.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+cron "user stats" do
+  minute 42
+  hour 15
+  command "cd /usr/local/app/diaspora && exec /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake --trace statistics:users_splunk &> /usr/local/app/diaspora/log/stats.log"
+end
+
+cron "content stats" do
+  minute 42
+  hour 15
+  command "cd /usr/local/app/diaspora && exec /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake --trace statistics:content_splunk &> /usr/local/app/diaspora/log/stats.log"
+end
+
+cron "backup mysql" do
+  minute 0
+  command "cd /usr/local/app/diaspora && exec /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake --trace backup:mysql"
+end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/bootstrap.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/bootstrap.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5f9852740c299ce2346b28fca676ae587f07104e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/bootstrap.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+common_pkgs = [
+  "cpio",
+  "gcc-c++",
+  "htop",
+  "psmisc",
+  "screen",
+  "bzip2"
+]
+
+dev_pkgs = value_for_platform(
+  "debian" => {
+    "default" => [
+      "libxml2-dev",
+      "libxslt-dev",
+      "libssl-dev",
+      "libcurl4-openssl-dev"
+    ]
+  },
+  "centos" => {
+    "default" => [
+      "libxml2-devel",
+      "libxslt-devel",
+      "openssl-devel",
+    ]
+  }
+)
+
+execute "apt-get update" do
+  action :nothing
+end.run_action(:run) if platform?("debian")
+
+common_pkgs.each do |pkg|
+  package pkg
+end
+
+dev_pkgs do |pkg|
+  package pkg
+end
+
+def harden_ruby(ruby_string)
+  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/wrappers/#{ruby_string}/*").each do |file|
+    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
+      to file
+    end
+  end
+  Dir.glob("/usr/local/rvm/gems/#{ruby_string}/bin/*").each do |file|
+    link "/usr/local/bin/#{file.split('/').last}" do
+      to file
+    end
+  end
+
+end
+
+harden_ruby("ree-1.8.7-2010.02")
+
+include_recipe "diaspora::java"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/curl.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/curl.rb
similarity index 96%
rename from chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/curl.rb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/curl.rb
index 66f4f8be4267ad4447c2f0e1103e6d9118e5c523..99660f12ee896282f1730419d53fb9664f353317 100644
--- a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/curl.rb
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/curl.rb
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ execute 'rebundle' do
   command 'bundle install'
 end
 
-include_recipe "centos::startcom_bundle"
+include_recipe "diaspora::startcom_bundle"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/daemontools.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/daemontools.rb
similarity index 99%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/daemontools.rb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/daemontools.rb
index 5548ad10d2b019c9205105ffff34c5117d86a075..c07371f160bef610b11a8e8efaa6d3f9da946ea2 100644
--- a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/daemontools.rb
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/daemontools.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ end
 execute "mysql run" do
   command "mkdir -p /service/mysql && echo '#!/bin/sh' > /service/mysql/run && echo 'exec /usr/libexec/mysqld --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --user=mysql'  >> /service/mysql/run"
 end
+
 execute "executable" do
   command "chmod -R 755 /service/mysql"
 end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/image_magick.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/image_magick.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0da41bfaff8397bcc661238c082ac4bfa34b5b29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/image_magick.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package "imagemagick" do
+  case node['platform']
+  when "debian"
+    package_name "imagemagick"
+  when "centos"
+    package_name "ImageMagick"
+  end
+end
+
+if platform?("debian")
+  package "libmagick9-dev"
+end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/iptables.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/iptables.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6a965bd0ed1d051178eaf28c2ac742e1231d2891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/iptables.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+if platform?("centos")
+
+  cookbook_file "/etc/sysconfig/iptables" do
+    source "iptables"
+    notifies :run, "execute[restart iptables]", :immediately
+  end
+
+  execute "restart iptables" do
+    command "/etc/init.d/iptables restart"
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/java.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/java.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af39a4da1994bca74207f8397faa1b078af43986
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/java.rb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+package "java"
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/main.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/main.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b96e987f0d150f4cf6fc90c286f335c46b6c2bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/main.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+include_recipe "diaspora::image_magick"
+include_recipe "diaspora::mysql"
+include_recipe "diaspora::iptables"
+include_recipe "diaspora::daemontools"
+include_recipe "diaspora::splunk"
+include_recipe "diaspora::backup"
+include_recipe "diaspora::nginx"
+include_recipe "diaspora::redis"
+include_recipe "diaspora::curl" if platform?("centos")
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/mysql.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/mysql.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80a8b39491067fbf1516c447969883e0df73f929
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/mysql.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+mysql_pkgs = value_for_platform(
+  "debian" => { "default" => %w[mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby] },
+  "centos" => { "default" => %w[mysql mysql-server mysql-devel] }
+)
+
+if platform?("centos")
+  
+  execute "start mysql service to create the system tables" do
+    command "service mysqld start"
+  end
+  
+  execute "stop service again" do
+    command "service mysqld stop"
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/nginx.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/nginx.rb
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/nginx.rb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/nginx.rb
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/redis.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/redis.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..265426d47a2ed4bef8ded13083c7823582fa978b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/redis.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+case node['platform']
+when "debian"
+
+  remote_file "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb" do
+    source "wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb"
+  end
+
+  dpkg_package "redis-server" do
+    source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb"
+  end  
+
+when "centos"
+
+  execute "refresh yum" do
+    command "yum update -y"
+  end
+
+  package "redis"
+
+end
+
+cookbook_file "/usr/local/etc/redis.conf" do
+  source "redis.conf"
+  mode 0755
+end
+
+directory "/usr/local/var/db/redis" do
+  recursive true
+end
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/splunk.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/splunk.rb
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/recipes/splunk.rb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/splunk.rb
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/startcom_bundle.rb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/startcom_bundle.rb
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/centos/recipes/startcom_bundle.rb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/recipes/startcom_bundle.rb
diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/common/templates/default/nginx.conf.erb b/chef/cookbooks/diaspora/templates/default/nginx.conf.erb
similarity index 100%
rename from chef/cookbooks/common/templates/default/nginx.conf.erb
rename to chef/cookbooks/diaspora/templates/default/nginx.conf.erb