diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0d5ca9a..2596d41 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 *.pyc
 .Python
 .sass-cache
+.vagrant
 
 /bin
 /include
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 9b2d6a9..87004d8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ In chronological order:
 
 * Matías Ducasa <https://github.com/matiasducasa>
   * Spanish translation
-  
+
+* Daniel Gräber <https://github.com/albohlabs>
+  * Added ansible for provisioning
+
 * [Your name or handle] <[email or website]>
   * [Brief summary of your changes]
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 22fbb9b..2693143 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 # This is the Vagrant config file for setting up an environment for Isso development.
 # It requires:
 #
-# * Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com)
-# * A VM engine, like VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org)
+# * Vagrant (https://vagrantup.com)
+# * A VM engine, like VirtualBox (https://virtualbox.org)
 # * The Vagrant-Hostmanager plugin (https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-hostmanager)
+# * Ansible (https://www.ansible.com)
 #
 # With them installed, cd into this directory and do 'vagrant up'. It's possible Vagrant will
 # ask for your root password so it can update your /etc/hosts file. Once it's happily churning out
@@ -17,47 +18,20 @@
 # to get into the VM. Useful info about it:
 #
 # * Running Ubuntu 14.04
-# * Isso is running on uWSGI via port 8080
-# * Actual webserver is Apache2, using mod_proxy_uwsgi to talk to uWSGI
-# * uWSGI log file is /tmp/uwsgi.log
-# * Isso DB file is /tmp/isso/comments.db
-# * Isso log file is /tmp/isso/isso.log
+# * Isso is running on uWSGI
+# * Actual webserver is Nginx to talk to uWSGI over a unix socket
+# * uWSGI log file is /var/log/uwsgi/apps/isso.log
+# * Isso DB file is /var/isso/comments.db
+# * Isso log file is /var/log/isso.log
+#
+# When the VM is getting rebooted vagrant mounts the shared folder after uWSGI is getting startet. To fix this issue for
+# the moment you need to 'vagrant ssh' into the VM and execute 'sudo service uwsgi restart'.
+#
+# For debugging with _pudb_ stop uWSGI service and start it manually
+# 'sudo uwsgi --ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/isso.ini'.
 #
 # Enjoy!
 
-$bootstrap = <<BOOTSTRAP
-  apt-get update
-  apt-get install -y apache2 curl build-essential python-setuptools python-dev sqlite3 git python-pip
-  a2enmod proxy
-  service apache2 restart
-
-  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
-  apt-get install -y nodejs
-
-  npm install -g bower requirejs uglify-js jade
-
-  cd /vagrant
-  python setup.py develop
-  make init
-  make js
-
-  ln -s /vagrant/isso/demo /var/www/isso
-
-  pip install uwsgi
-  mkdir -p /tmp/isso/spool
-
-  uwsgi --socket 127.0.0.1:8080 --master --processes 4 --cache2 name=hash,items=1024,blocksize=32 --spooler /tmp/isso/spool --module isso.run --env ISSO_SETTINGS=/vagrant/share/isso-dev.conf --daemonize /tmp/uwsgi.log --py-autoreload 1 
-  chmod a+r /tmp/uwsgi.log
-  
-  apt-get install libapache2-mod-proxy-uwsgi
-
-  cp /vagrant/share/isso-dev.local.apache-conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/isso-dev.local.conf
-  a2ensite isso-dev.local
-  a2dissite 000-default
-  service apache2 restart
-
-BOOTSTRAP
-
 Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
 
   # The most common configuration options are documented and commented below.
@@ -81,7 +55,11 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
     (ip = /inet addr:(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d)/.match(result)) && ip[1]
   end
 
-  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $bootstrap
+  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
+    ansible.playbook = "ansible/site.yml"
+    ansible.limit = "all"
+    ansible.verbose = "v"
+  end
 
   config.vm.post_up_message = "Browse to http://isso-dev.local/demo/index.html to start."
 end
diff --git a/ansible/files/nginx.conf b/ansible/files/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8243109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/files/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+user root;
+worker_processes 4;
+worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
+
+error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+pid        /run/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+    worker_connections 2014;
+    multi_accept on;
+    use epoll;
+}
+
+http {
+    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+    log_format  timed  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" '
+                      '$request_time $upstream_response_time $upstream_addr '
+                      ' $upstream_status $upstream_cache_status $pipe';
+
+    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  timed;
+
+    sendfile        on;
+    tcp_nopush     on;
+
+    keepalive_timeout  30;
+
+    gzip  on;
+
+    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
+    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
+}
diff --git a/ansible/files/nginx.vhost.conf b/ansible/files/nginx.vhost.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e520e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/files/nginx.vhost.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+server {
+    client_max_body_size 20M;
+    listen 80 default_server;
+    server_name isso-dev.local;
+
+    root /vagrant/isso/demo;
+
+    location / {
+        # uwsgi_pass unix:///run/uwsgi/app/isso/socket;
+        uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
+        include uwsgi_params;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ansible/files/uwsgi.ini b/ansible/files/uwsgi.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c40d601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/files/uwsgi.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[uwsgi]
+plugins = python
+
+chdir = /vagrant
+
+uid = root
+gid = root
+
+socket = :8080
+
+master = true
+processes = 4
+cache2 = name=hash,items=10240,blocksize=32
+spooler = /var/isso/spool
+module = isso.run
+env = ISSO_SETTINGS=/vagrant/share/isso-dev.conf
+env = PYTHON_EGG_CACHE=/tmp
+
+# uncomment for debugging
+# daemonize = /var/log/uwsgi/uwsgi.log
+py-autoreload = 1
+
+# prevent uWSGI from remapping stdin to /dev/null
+honour-stdin = true
diff --git a/ansible/site.yml b/ansible/site.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f974ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/site.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+---
+
+- name: Provision development server
+  hosts: all
+  sudo: true
+  tasks:
+
+    - name: Apt | Add nodesource keys
+      apt_key: url=https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key state=present
+
+    - name: Apt | Add nodesource sources list deb
+      apt_repository: repo='deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main' state=present
+
+    - name: Apt | Add nodesource sources list deb src
+      apt_repository: repo='deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node {{ ansible_distribution_release }} main' state=present
+
+    - name: Apt | Install packages
+      apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest update_cache=true
+      with_items:
+        - build-essential
+        - curl
+        - htop
+        - vim
+        - git
+        - python-dev
+        - python-software-properties
+        - python-setuptools
+        - python-pip
+        - nginx
+        - uwsgi
+        - uwsgi-plugin-python
+        - supervisor
+        - sqlite3
+        - nodejs
+
+    - name: NPM | Install packages
+      npm: name={{ item }} global=yes
+      with_items:
+        - bower
+        - requirejs
+        - uglify-js
+        - jade
+
+    - name: Python | Install egg
+      shell: cd /vagrant; python setup.py develop
+
+    - name: Make
+      shell: cd /vagrant; {{ item }}
+      with_items:
+        - make init
+        - make js
+
+    - name: Spool | Create directory
+      file: path=/var/isso/spool state=directory mode=0777
+
+    - name: uwsgi | Deploy configuration
+      copy: src=files/uwsgi.ini dest=/etc/uwsgi/apps-available/isso.ini
+
+    - name: uwsgi | Enable app
+      file: src=/etc/uwsgi/apps-available/isso.ini dest=/etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/isso.ini state=link
+
+    - name: uwsgi | Restart service daemon
+      service: name=uwsgi state=restarted enabled=yes
+
+    - name: uwsgi | Chmod logfile
+      file: path=/var/log/uwsgi/uwsgi.log state=touch mode="a+r"
+
+    - name: nginx | Deploy nginx.conf
+      copy: src=files/nginx.conf dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+
+    - name: nginx | Delete default vhost
+      action: file path=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default state=absent
+
+    - name: nginx | Deploy vhost config
+      copy: src=files/nginx.vhost.conf dest=/etc/nginx/sites-available/isso.conf
+
+    - name: nginx | Enable vhost
+      file: src=/etc/nginx/sites-available/isso.conf dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/000-isso state=link
+
+    - name: nginx | Chmod logfile
+      file: path=/var/log/nginx mode="a+rx" state=directory recurse=true
+
+    - name: nginx | Restart service daemon
+      service: name=nginx state=restarted enabled=yes
diff --git a/isso/utils/http.py b/isso/utils/http.py
index 7a347c6..fa3cd9e 100644
--- a/isso/utils/http.py
+++ b/isso/utils/http.py
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ class curl(object):
         except (httplib.HTTPException, socket.error):
             return None
 
-        return self.con.getresponse()
+        try:
+            return self.con.getresponse()
+        except (socket.timeout, socket.error):
+            return None
 
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
         self.con.close()
diff --git a/share/isso-dev.conf b/share/isso-dev.conf
index 9ccee84..ce87ab3 100644
--- a/share/isso-dev.conf
+++ b/share/isso-dev.conf
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
 [general]
 
-dbpath = /tmp/isso/comments.db
+dbpath = /var/isso/comments.db
 host = http://isso-dev.local/
 max-age = 15m
 notify = stdout
-log-file = /tmp/isso/isso.log
+log-file = /var/log/isso.log
 
 [moderation]
 enabled = false
diff --git a/share/isso-dev.local.apache-conf b/share/isso-dev.local.apache-conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b5370c..0000000
--- a/share/isso-dev.local.apache-conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-	ServerName isso-dev.local
-
-	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
-	DocumentRoot /var/www/isso/
-
-	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
-	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
-
-	ProxyPass / uwsgi://127.0.0.1:8080/
-
-</VirtualHost>
-
-# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet