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 ## How to deploy to your own server
 
-FIXME: Jackson to fill this in
+Omnivore was originally designed to be deployed on GCP and takes advantage
+of some of GCP's PaaS features. We are working to make Omnivore more portable
+so you can easily run the service on your own infrastructure. You can track
+progress here: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/25
+
+To deploy Omnivore on your own hardware you will need to deploy three
+dockerized services and configure access to a postgres service. To handle
+PDF documents you will need to configure access to a Google Cloud Storage
+bucket.
+
+- `packages/api` - the backend API service
+- `packages/web` - the web frontend (can easily be deployed to vercel)
+- `packages/puppeteer-parse` - the content fetching service (can easily
+be deployed as an AWS lambda or GCP Cloud Function)
+
+Additionally, you will need to run our database migrations to initialize
+your database. These are dockerized and can be run with the
+`packages/db` service.
 
 ## License