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+# Example etc files for deploying ArchiveBox
+
+In this folder are some example config files you can use for setting up ArchiveBox on your machine.
+
+E.g. see `etc/nginx` for an example nginx config to serve your archive, or `etc/cron` for an example cron job that crawls a feed every 24 hours.
+
+Please contribute your etc files here! Example contributions
+
+- supervisord config
+- systemd config
+- apache webserver config
+- other init system, webservers, or scheduler configs