diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f079951d..10ff3ae9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+# 2018-08-17
+
+## Disabling some unnecessary Synapse services
+
+The following services are not necessary, so they have been disabled:
+- on the federation port (8448): the `client` service
+- on the http port (80): the old Angular `webclient` and the `federation` service
+
+Federation runs only on the federation port (8448) now.
+The Client APIs run only on the http port (80) now.
+
+
 # 2018-08-15
 
 ## mxisd Identity Server support
diff --git a/roles/matrix-server/templates/synapse/homeserver.yaml.j2 b/roles/matrix-server/templates/synapse/homeserver.yaml.j2
index 64020d33..106c8f16 100644
--- a/roles/matrix-server/templates/synapse/homeserver.yaml.j2
+++ b/roles/matrix-server/templates/synapse/homeserver.yaml.j2
@@ -143,17 +143,6 @@ listeners:
 
     # List of HTTP resources to serve on this listener.
     resources:
-      -
-        # List of resources to host on this listener.
-        names:
-          - client     # The client-server APIs, both v1 and v2
-          - webclient  # The bundled webclient.
-
-        # Should synapse compress HTTP responses to clients that support it?
-        # This should be disabled if running synapse behind a load balancer
-        # that can do automatic compression.
-        compress: true
-
       - names: [federation]  # Federation APIs
         compress: false
 
@@ -174,10 +163,8 @@ listeners:
     x_forwarded: true
 
     resources:
-      - names: [client, webclient]
+      - names: [client]
         compress: true
-      - names: [federation]
-        compress: false
 
   # Turn on the twisted ssh manhole service on localhost on the given
   # port.