diff --git a/configure b/configure
index f34086d5c..dd474b17c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ enable_option_checking
 with_extra_version
 enable_coverage
 with_libcurl
+with_reports_hostname
 '
       ac_precious_vars='build_alias
 host_alias
@@ -1316,6 +1317,9 @@ Optional Packages:
                           append STRING to version
   --without-libcurl       do not use libcurl for anonymous statistics
                           collection
+  --with-reports-hostname=HOSTNAME
+                          Use HOSTNAME as hostname for statistics collection
+                          and update checks
 
 Some influential environment variables:
   PG_CONFIG   Location to find pg_config for target PostgreSQL instalation
@@ -4112,6 +4116,36 @@ fi
 
 fi
 
+# REPORTS_BASE_URL definition
+
+
+
+# Check whether --with-reports-hostname was given.
+if test "${with_reports_hostname+set}" = set; then :
+  withval=$with_reports_hostname;
+  case $withval in
+    yes)
+      as_fn_error $? "argument required for --with-reports-hostname option" "$LINENO" 5
+      ;;
+    no)
+      as_fn_error $? "argument required for --with-reports-hostname option" "$LINENO" 5
+      ;;
+    *)
+      REPORTS_BASE_URL="https://${withval}"
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+else
+  REPORTS_BASE_URL="https://reports.citusdata.com"
+fi
+
+
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
+#define REPORTS_BASE_URL "$REPORTS_BASE_URL"
+_ACEOF
+
+
 CITUS_CFLAGS="$CITUS_CFLAGS"
 
 CITUS_LDFLAGS="$LIBS"
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index d8e6f8b2d..603177213 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -191,6 +191,14 @@ failure.  It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper directory.
 Use --without-libcurl to disable libcurl support.])])
 fi
 
+# REPORTS_BASE_URL definition
+PGAC_ARG_REQ(with, reports-hostname, [HOSTNAME],
+             [Use HOSTNAME as hostname for statistics collection and update checks],
+             [REPORTS_BASE_URL="https://${withval}"],
+             [REPORTS_BASE_URL="https://reports.citusdata.com"])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(REPORTS_BASE_URL, "$REPORTS_BASE_URL",
+                   [Base URL for statistics collection and update checks])
+
 AC_SUBST(CITUS_CFLAGS, "$CITUS_CFLAGS")
 AC_SUBST(CITUS_LDFLAGS, "$LIBS")
 AC_SUBST(POSTGRES_SRCDIR, "$POSTGRES_SRCDIR")
diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/utils/statistics_collection.c b/src/backend/distributed/utils/statistics_collection.c
index 344785791..b34274ba4 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/utils/statistics_collection.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/utils/statistics_collection.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ CollectBasicUsageStatistics(void)
 	appendStringInfo(fields, ",\"node_metadata\": %s", metadataJsonbStr);
 	appendStringInfoString(fields, "}");
 
-	return SendHttpPostJsonRequest(STATS_COLLECTION_HOST "/v1/usage_reports",
+	return SendHttpPostJsonRequest(REPORTS_BASE_URL "/v1/usage_reports",
 								   fields->data, HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
 								   StatisticsCallback);
 }
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ void
 CheckForUpdates(void)
 {
 	StringInfo url = makeStringInfo();
-	appendStringInfoString(url, STATS_COLLECTION_HOST "/v1/releases/latest?edition=");
+	appendStringInfoString(url, REPORTS_BASE_URL "/v1/releases/latest?edition=");
 
 	if (!UrlEncode(url, CITUS_EDITION))
 	{
diff --git a/src/include/citus_config.h.in b/src/include/citus_config.h.in
index d646eb48f..5943116c3 100644
--- a/src/include/citus_config.h.in
+++ b/src/include/citus_config.h.in
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
 #undef PACKAGE_VERSION
 
+/* Base URL for statistics collection and update checks */
+#undef REPORTS_BASE_URL
+
 /* The size of `void *', as computed by sizeof. */
 #undef SIZEOF_VOID_P
 
diff --git a/src/include/citus_version.h.in b/src/include/citus_version.h.in
index 156fd99b9..e2594767e 100644
--- a/src/include/citus_version.h.in
+++ b/src/include/citus_version.h.in
@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@
 
 /* Define to 1 if you have the `curl' library (-lcurl). */
 #undef HAVE_LIBCURL
+
+/* Base URL for statistics collection and update checks */
+#undef REPORTS_BASE_URL
diff --git a/src/include/distributed/statistics_collection.h b/src/include/distributed/statistics_collection.h
index 265837de3..58e80746a 100644
--- a/src/include/distributed/statistics_collection.h
+++ b/src/include/distributed/statistics_collection.h
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extern bool EnableStatisticsCollection;
 
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBCURL
 
-#define STATS_COLLECTION_HOST "https://citus-statistics.herokuapp.com"
 #define HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS 5
 
 extern void WarnIfSyncDNS(void);
diff --git a/src/test/regress/Makefile b/src/test/regress/Makefile
index b705d80bd..678e3575d 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/Makefile
+++ b/src/test/regress/Makefile
@@ -43,44 +43,36 @@ check-full: check-multi check-multi-mx check-multi-task-tracker-extra check-work
 # for check-worker. But that's harmless besides a few cycles.
 check-worker: all
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/worker_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-multi: all tempinstall-main
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-multi-vg: all tempinstall-main
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus --valgrind \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	--pg_ctl-timeout=360 --connection-timeout=500000 --valgrind-path=valgrind --valgrind-log-file=$(VALGRIND_LOG_FILE) \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-isolation: all tempinstall-main
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus --isolationtester \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/isolation_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-vanilla: all tempinstall-main
-	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus --vanillatest \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0
+	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus --vanillatest
 
 check-multi-mx: all tempinstall-main
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_mx_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-multi-task-tracker-extra: all tempinstall-main
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	--server-option=citus.task_executor_type=task-tracker \
 	--server-option=citus.large_table_shard_count=1 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_task_tracker_extra_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 check-follower-cluster: all
 	$(pg_regress_multi_check) --load-extension=citus --follower-cluster \
-	--server-option=citus.enable_statistics_collection=0 \
 	-- $(MULTI_REGRESS_OPTS) --schedule=$(citus_abs_srcdir)/multi_follower_schedule $(EXTRA_TESTS)
 
 clean distclean maintainer-clean: