diff --git a/fabfile.py b/fabfile.py
index c85a37574..d3a39b2b3 100644
--- a/fabfile.py
+++ b/fabfile.py
@@ -79,10 +79,15 @@ env.roledefs ={
            'db20.newsblur.com',
            'db21.newsblur.com',
            'db22.newsblur.com',
+           'db23.newsblur.com',
            ],
-    'dbdo':['198.211.115.113',
+    'dbdo':['198.211.109.225',
+            '198.211.109.224',
+            '198.211.110.164',
+            '198.211.115.113',
             '198.211.115.153',
             '198.211.115.8',
+            '198.211.117.116',
             ],
     'task': ['task01.newsblur.com', 
              'task02.newsblur.com', 
@@ -521,7 +526,7 @@ def setup_imaging():
 def setup_supervisor():
     sudo('apt-get -y install supervisor')
 
-@parallel
+# @parallel
 def setup_hosts():
     put('../secrets-newsblur/configs/hosts', '/etc/hosts', use_sudo=True)
 
diff --git a/utils/feed_fetcher.py b/utils/feed_fetcher.py
index f1570714a..0f766f351 100644
--- a/utils/feed_fetcher.py
+++ b/utils/feed_fetcher.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from apps.statistics.models import MAnalyticsFetcher
 from utils import feedparser
 from utils.story_functions import pre_process_story
 from utils import log as logging
-from utils.feed_functions import timelimit, TimeoutError, utf8encode
+from utils.feed_functions import timelimit, TimeoutError, utf8encode, cache_bust_url
 # from utils.feed_functions import mail_feed_error_to_admin
 
 
@@ -54,11 +54,18 @@ class FetchFeed:
                                                  
         etag=self.feed.etag
         modified = self.feed.last_modified.utctimetuple()[:7] if self.feed.last_modified else None
+        address = self.feed.feed_address
         
-        if self.options.get('force') or not self.feed.fetched_once or not self.feed.known_good:
+        if (self.options.get('force') or random.random() <= .01):
             modified = None
             etag = None
-
+            address = cache_bust_url(address)
+            logging.debug(u'   ---> [%-30s] ~FBForcing fetch: %s' % (
+                          self.feed.title[:30], address))
+        elif (not self.feed.fetched_once or not self.feed.known_good):
+            modified = None
+            etag = None
+        
         USER_AGENT = 'NewsBlur Feed Fetcher - %s subscriber%s - %s (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/536.2.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2)' % (
             self.feed.num_subscribers,
             's' if self.feed.num_subscribers != 1 else '',
@@ -75,7 +82,7 @@ class FetchFeed:
             return FEED_OK, self.fpf
 
         try:
-            self.fpf = feedparser.parse(self.feed.feed_address,
+            self.fpf = feedparser.parse(address,
                                         agent=USER_AGENT,
                                         etag=etag,
                                         modified=modified)
@@ -83,7 +90,7 @@ class FetchFeed:
             logging.debug(u'   ***> [%-30s] ~FR%s, turning off microformats.' % 
                           (self.feed.title[:30], e))
             feedparser.PARSE_MICROFORMATS = False
-            self.fpf = feedparser.parse(self.feed.feed_address,
+            self.fpf = feedparser.parse(address,
                                         agent=USER_AGENT,
                                         etag=etag,
                                         modified=modified)
diff --git a/utils/feed_functions.py b/utils/feed_functions.py
index e787e80d7..efbef9ca9 100644
--- a/utils/feed_functions.py
+++ b/utils/feed_functions.py
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ import threading
 import sys
 import traceback
 import pprint
+import urllib
+import urlparse
+import random
 from django.core.mail import mail_admins
 from django.utils.translation import ungettext
-from django.conf import settings
 from utils import log as logging
 
 class TimeoutError(Exception): pass
@@ -56,6 +58,18 @@ def utf8encode(tstr):
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             return u''
 
+def append_query_string_to_url(url, **kwargs):
+    url_parts = list(urlparse.urlparse(url))
+    query = dict(urlparse.parse_qsl(url_parts[4]))
+    query.update(kwargs)
+
+    url_parts[4] = urllib.urlencode(query)
+
+    return urlparse.urlunparse(url_parts)
+    
+def cache_bust_url(url):
+    return append_query_string_to_url(url, _=random.randint(0, 10000))
+    
 # From: http://www.poromenos.org/node/87
 def levenshtein_distance(first, second):
     """Find the Levenshtein distance between two strings."""