diff --git a/atproto_hub.yaml b/atproto_hub.yaml
index e7e94136..27a7c215 100644
--- a/atproto_hub.yaml
+++ b/atproto_hub.yaml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ manual_scaling:
   instances: 1
 
 liveness_check:
-  # default 300; does lowering this speed up deploy? seems like no
+  # default 300; does lowering this speed up deploy? seems like maybe, a bit?
   # https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/reference/app-yaml?tab=python#liveness_checks
   initial_delay_sec: 30
 
diff --git a/router.yaml b/router.yaml
index 89625a6e..2c39a30d 100644
--- a/router.yaml
+++ b/router.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ env_variables:
 manual_scaling:
   instances: 1
 
+liveness_check:
+  # default 300; does lowering this speed up deploy? seems like maybe, a bit?
+  # https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/reference/app-yaml?tab=python#liveness_checks
+  initial_delay_sec: 30
+
 # https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/runtime#application_startup
 # https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/settings.html
 # TODO: try asyncio w/eventlet workers