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A Comprehensive Overview of Backend Servers for Django Applications

Pragati Verma on April 10, 2023

Django is a popular web framework that is widely used by developers to build powerful and scalable web applications. One of the key components of a...

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Anubhav Singhal • Apr 11 '23

This article justifies it's title. Very comprehensive.

Okoro chimezie bright • Apr 11 '23

Well done 👍👍👍and thanks for sharing

Pragati Verma • Apr 13 '23

Thank you, I am glad that you liked it 😁

Okoro chimezie bright • Apr 13 '23

you are welcome

Corentin Bettiol • Apr 12 '23

Nice article! I personally use Apache + Gunicorn, it works well too.

Pragati Verma • Apr 13 '23

Thanks for reading, I have primarily used Ngnix + Gunicorn, that's why I have focused a lot there.

Alkado heneliko • Oct 16 '23

Please Pragati, can you write another article showing how to configure Ngnix + Gunicorn.
I will be thankful of that!
Overall thank you for this helpful article

Pragati Verma • Oct 17 '23

Sure, that makes a good topic. Will try to work on it in the next few weeks. Thanks for reading.😁

Alexey Poimtsev • Apr 13 '23

There are another one interesting web server - traefik.io

Priyansh Agrawal • Nov 20 '23 • Edited

If I'm behind a proxy such as Nginx I don't need to set up the load balancing algorithm for different workers of Gunicorn ? For instance, consider below configuration using least connection algorithm :
upstream gunicorn {
least_conn;
server localhost:8000;
server localhost:8001;
server localhost:8002;
server localhost:8003;
}

server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;

location / {
    proxy_pass http://gunicorn;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

}

Augusta Kozey • Jun 13

hi what is the best choise for a estate website which addresses large amount of high-resolution images.