Lightweight webserver for Django?

Is it possible (on Webfaction, naturally) to dispense with Apache, and use a webserver with a much smaller memory footprint to serve up my Django application?

The reason I ask is that I keep going over my memory quota with no requests to my application whatsoever (although I do have a number of auxiliary processes, I would still like to minimise my overhead).

asked 22 Mar '12, 09:52

Marcin
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edited 22 Mar '12, 10:06

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Hi,

There are some options:

You can tune apache, changing the number of processes, threads, and servers running. These settings can all be found in your httpd.conf file. You'll need to restart apache after those changes.
You can use FCGI.
You can use gunicorn.
You can use uwsgi.

The articles in the links should help you get them set up. Keep in mind that you'll need to do some tuning for the configuration of any of those other methods of serving Django apps.

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answered 22 Mar '12, 10:31

klynton
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Thanks! Very helpful.

(22 Mar '12, 12:13) Marcin

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