diff --git a/humbug/settings.py b/humbug/settings.py
index b04267c777..74474c9771 100644
--- a/humbug/settings.py
+++ b/humbug/settings.py
@@ -333,8 +333,12 @@ CACHES['database'] = {
 
 if DEPLOYED:
     SERVER_LOG_PATH = "/home/humbug/logs/server.log"
+    EVENT_LOG_DIR = '/home/humbug/logs/event_log'
+    STATS_DIR = '/home/humbug/stats'
 else:
+    EVENT_LOG_DIR = 'event_log'
     SERVER_LOG_PATH = "server.log"
+    STATS_DIR = 'stats'
 
 LOGGING = {
     'version': 1,
@@ -437,8 +441,6 @@ OPENID_RENDER_FAILURE = openid_failure_handler
 MAILCHIMP_API_KEY = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-us4'
 HUMBUG_FRIENDS_LIST_ID = '84b2f3da6b'
 
-EVENT_LOG_DIR = 'event_log'
-
 # Client-side polling timeout for get_events, in milliseconds.
 # We configure this here so that the client test suite can override it.
 # We already kill the connection server-side with heartbeat events,
diff --git a/zephyr/lib/stats.py b/zephyr/lib/stats.py
index 2e27a658b8..6c48fd1e03 100644
--- a/zephyr/lib/stats.py
+++ b/zephyr/lib/stats.py
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
+from django.conf import settings
 import os
 import logging
 
-STATS_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "stats")
-
 def update_stat(name, value):
     try:
-        os.mkdir(STATS_DIR)
+        os.mkdir(settings.STATS_DIR)
     except OSError:
         pass
 
-    base_filename = os.path.join(STATS_DIR, name)
+    base_filename = os.path.join(settings.STATS_DIR, name)
     tmp_filename = base_filename + ".new"
 
     try: