Gunicorn

Gunicorn ‘Green Unicorn’ is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It’s a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby’s Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.

Gunicorn and Django

1. you can install Gunicorn using easy_install or pip
2. add gunicorn to INSTALLED_APP in django’s settings.py
3. run python manage.py run_gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:1234 –daemon to start
4. configure nginx to make it proxy requests to gunicorn by adding proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1234 in the config file

Then everything is done and you can visit your django app in http://hostname:port based on the nginx file config.