diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/koschei.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/koschei.yml
index ffa57c5d98..206f6c8b19 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/koschei.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/koschei.yml
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
     command: alembic -c /usr/share/koschei/alembic.ini upgrade head
 
   post_tasks:
+  - name: start httpd
+    service: name="httpd" state=started
   - name: unsilence nagios
     nagios: action=unsilence service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
     delegate_to: noc01.phx2.fedoraproject.org