diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9c3f23d7..cb0681f4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -72,10 +72,6 @@ COPY --chown=django:django ./entrypoint /entrypoint
 RUN sed -i 's/\r$//g' /entrypoint
 RUN chmod +x /entrypoint
 
-COPY --chown=django:django ./start /start
-RUN sed -i 's/\r$//g' /start
-RUN chmod +x /start
-
 # copy application code to WORKDIR
 COPY --from=client-builder --chown=django:django ${APP_HOME} ${APP_HOME}
 
diff --git a/entrypoint b/entrypoint
index eda1937a..a343f58c 100644
--- a/entrypoint
+++ b/entrypoint
@@ -12,10 +12,14 @@ fi
 # omit the port when running on App Engine, Cloud Run etc
 if [ -z "${INSTANCE_CONNECTION_NAME}"]; then
     export DATABASE_URL="postgres://${POSTGRES_USER}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@${POSTGRES_HOST}:${POSTGRES_PORT}/${POSTGRES_DB}"
+    echo "Set up database URL for running in Cloud SQL (Unix Socket)"
 else
     export DATABASE_URL="postgres://${POSTGRES_USER}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@${POSTGRES_HOST}/${POSTGRES_DB}"
+    echo "Set up database URL for running outside Cloud SQL (host and port)"
 fi
 
+echo "Database URL: ${DATABASE_URL}"
+
 postgres_ready() {
 python << END
 import sys
@@ -42,4 +46,35 @@ until postgres_ready; do
 done
 >&2 echo 'PostgreSQL is available'
 
-exec "/start"
+python /app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput
+>&2 echo 'Collected static files...'
+
+python /app/manage.py migrate
+>&2 echo 'Ran database migrations...'
+
+python /app/manage.py createcachetable
+>&2 echo 'Created the cache table...'
+
+compress_enabled() {
+python << END
+import sys
+
+from environ import Env
+
+env = Env(COMPRESS_ENABLED=(bool, True))
+if env('COMPRESS_ENABLED'):
+    sys.exit(0)
+else:
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+END
+}
+
+if compress_enabled; then
+  # NOTE this command will fail if django-compressor is disabled
+  python /app/manage.py compress
+  >&2 echo 'Compressed static assets...'
+fi
+
+>&2 echo 'About to run Gunicorn...'
+/usr/local/bin/gunicorn config.asgi --bind 0.0.0.0:$PORT --chdir=/app -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker
diff --git a/start b/start
deleted file mode 100644
index c879b1d2..00000000
--- a/start
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o pipefail
-set -o nounset
-
-
-python /app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput
-python /app/manage.py migrate
-python /app/manage.py createcachetable
-
-compress_enabled() {
-python << END
-import sys
-
-from environ import Env
-
-env = Env(COMPRESS_ENABLED=(bool, True))
-if env('COMPRESS_ENABLED'):
-    sys.exit(0)
-else:
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-END
-}
-
-if compress_enabled; then
-  # NOTE this command will fail if django-compressor is disabled
-  python /app/manage.py compress
-fi
-
-/usr/local/bin/gunicorn config.asgi --bind 0.0.0.0:$PORT --chdir=/app -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker