diff --git a/services/web/cleanup.js b/services/web/cleanup.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d6d88285c..0000000000
--- a/services/web/cleanup.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-var keys = require('./app/js/infrastructure/Keys');
-var settings = require('settings-sharelatex');
-var queueName = process.argv[2];
-var projectQueueName = process.argv[3];
-var queue = require('fairy').connect(settings.redis.web).queue(queueName);
-console.log("cleaning up queue "+ queueName + " " + projectQueueName);
-queue._requeue_group(projectQueueName);
-
-//fairy should kill the process but just in case
-thirtySeconds = 30 * 1000
-setTimeout(process.exit, thirtySeconds)