Mod_wsgi versus fapws3 - Django

Question

Hi folks,

is there a difference between using FAPWS3 and MOD_WSGI when dealing with Django?

FAPWS3 seems alot faster when serving requests toward Python scripts. I would like to know if I'm missing out anything. :)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The underlying web server is not the bottleneck, it is your application and database access. The differences between any underlying web server are going to very minimal or non existent in the context of an actual full application stack. You cannot base decisions on hello world type tests as they are pretty meaningless. Decisions should therefore be based on the quality and stability of the hosting solutions under load, as well as ease of configuration and support, including your own competence to manage a particular setup. If you have no idea how to configure and support a particular web server properly, eg., Apache, then why would you use it.