Cleanest & Fastest server setup for Django [closed]

Answer 1

There are many ways, approach to do this.For that reason, I recommend to read carefully the article related to the deployment process on DjangoAdvent.com: Eric Florenzano - Deploying Django with FastCGI: http://djangoadvent.com/1.2/deploying-django-site-using-fastcgi/ Read too: Mike Malone - Scaling Django Stochastictechnologies Blog: The perfect Django Setup Mikkel Hoegh Blog: 35 % Response-time-improvement-switching-uwsgi-nginx

Regards

Answer 2

I'm using Cherokee.

According to their benchmarks (grain of salt with them), it handles load better than both Lighttpd and nginx... But that's not why I use it.

I use it because if you type cherokee-admin, it starts a new server that you can log into (with a one-time password) and configure the whole server through a beautifully-done webmin. That's a killer feature. It has already saved me a lot of time. And it's saving my server a lot of resources!

As for django, I'm running it as a threaded SCGI process. Works well. Cherokee can keep it running too. Again, very nice feature.

The current Ubuntu repo version is very old so I'd advise you use their PPA. Good luck.

Answer 3

I have a warning for using Cherokee. When you make changes to Django Cherokee maintains the OLD process, instead of killing it and starting a new one.

On Apache i strongly recommend this article.

http://www.djangofoo.com/17/django-mod_wsgi-deploy-exampl

Its easy to setup, easy to kill or reset after making changes.

Just type in terminal

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

and changes are seen instantly.

Answer 4

I'm struggling to understand all the options as well. In this blog post I found some benefits of mod_wsgi compared to mod_python explained.

Multiple low-traffic sites on a small VPS make RAM consumption the primary concern, and mod_python seems like a bad option there. Using lighttpd and FastCGI, I've managed to get the minimum memory usage of a simple Django site down to 58MiB virtual and 6.5MiB resident (after restarting and serving a single non-RAM-heavy request).

I've noticed that upgrading from Python 2.4 to 2.5 on Debian Etch increased the minimum memory footprint of the Python processes by a few percent. On the other hand, 2.5's better memory management might have a bigger opposite effect on long-running processes.

Answer 5

In my opinion best/fastest stack is varnish-nginx-uwsgi-django. And I'm successfully using it.

Answer 6

As @Barry said, the documentation uses mod_python. I haven't used Ubuntu as a server, but had a good experience with mod_wsgi on Solaris. You can find documentation for mod_wsgi and Django on the mod_wsgi site.

A quick review of your requirements:

• Easy to setup I've found apache 2.2 fairly easy to build and install.
• Fast and easy on resources I would say that this depends on your usage and traffic. * You may not want to server all files using Apache and use LightTPD (lighty) to server static files.
• Can serve media files I assume you mean images, flash files? Apache can do this.
• Multiple sites on same server Virtual server hosting on Apache.
• Rather not install other extensions Comment out anything you don't want in the Apache config.