diff --git a/backend/Procfile b/backend/Procfile
index 7d5fa92723..683dc0bdb9 100644
--- a/backend/Procfile
+++ b/backend/Procfile
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # used by cloud.gov
-web: newrelic-admin run-program gunicorn config.wsgi -c gunicorn.conf.py -t 60
+web: newrelic-admin run-program gunicorn config.wsgi -c gunicorn.conf.py
diff --git a/backend/gunicorn.conf.py b/backend/gunicorn.conf.py
index a709b354cb..19fa509e87 100644
--- a/backend/gunicorn.conf.py
+++ b/backend/gunicorn.conf.py
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+timeout = 120
 workers = 4