diff --git a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/.gitignore b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/.gitignore
index 17a4d8234e..7cb2d9135e 100644
--- a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/.gitignore
+++ b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 /static/pkgs-all
 *json
 /static/atom.xml
+/static.gz
diff --git a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/dynamic.rkt b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/dynamic.rkt
index 160d9bd1b9..a30e136e24 100644
--- a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/dynamic.rkt
+++ b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/dynamic.rkt
@@ -373,12 +373,19 @@
    [("api" "upload") #:method "post" api/upload]
    [else redirect-to-static]))
 
+(define-syntax-rule (forever . body)
+  (let loop () (begin . body) (loop)))
+
 (define (go port)
   (printf "launching on port ~a\n" port)
+  (signal-static! empty)
+  (thread
+   (λ ()     
+     (forever
+      (sleep (* 24 60 60))
+      (signal-update! empty))))
   (serve/servlet
-   (λ (req)
-     ;; (displayln (url->string (request-uri req)))
-     (main-dispatch req))
+   main-dispatch
    #:command-line? #t
    #:listen-ip #f
    #:ssl? #t
diff --git a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/s3.rkt b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/s3.rkt
index c69ea6474e..e186114b8a 100644
--- a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/s3.rkt
+++ b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/s3.rkt
@@ -1,9 +1,49 @@
 #lang racket/base
 (require racket/list
+         racket/file
+         racket/path
+         racket/system
+         file/gzip
+         racket/match
          "common.rkt")
 
+(define (make-parent-directory* p)
+  (make-directory* (path-only p)))
+
+(define s3-config (build-path (find-system-path 'home-dir) ".s3cfg-plt"))
+(define s3-bucket "pkg.racket-lang.org")
+
+(define static.gz-path (path-add-suffix static-path ".gz"))
+
+(define s3cmd-path (find-executable-path "s3cmd"))
+
 (define (upload-all)
-  (error 'upload-all "XXX"))
+  (define root (simple-form-path static-path))
+
+  (for ([f (in-directory root)]
+        #:when (file-exists? f))
+    (define f.time (file-or-directory-modify-seconds f))
+
+    (define rf (find-relative-path root f))
+    (define gf (build-path static.gz-path rf))
+    (make-parent-directory* gf)
+
+    (define g.time (file-or-directory-modify-seconds gf))
+
+    (when (> f.time g.time)
+      (printf "gzipping ~a\n" f)
+      (gzip f gf)))
+
+  (system* s3cmd-path
+           "-c" s3-config
+           "sync"
+           "-M"
+           "--acl-public"
+           "--add-header" "Content-Encoding:gzip"
+           "--delete-removed"
+           (format "~a/" static.gz-path)
+           (format "s3://~a/" s3-bucket)))
+
 (define (upload-pkgs pkgs)
   ;; FUTURE make this more efficient
   (upload-all))
diff --git a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/static/index.js b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/static/index.js
index 78fe4f2197..c4b494e8b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/static/index.js
+++ b/pkgs/plt-services/meta/pkg-index/official/static/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// xxx change these to the real thing
-var dynamic_host = "localhost";
+var dynamic_host = "pkg-dyn.racket-lang.org";
 var dynamic_port = 9004;
 
 function dynamic_url ( u ) {