what is fastest as a django production server : twisted.web2 vs. apache mod_wsgi

Question

i want to deploy my django project, what is best (on performance) of these 2 deployment methodologies:

1. Django-On-Twisted

2. apache mod_wsgi

i knew that mod_wsgi was recommended by django developers but i feel twisted is more efficient when running multiple django instance.

Answer 1

As has been said, the server deployment setup won't be the bottleneck at this stage, however I still feel there's definitely value in picking and learning something now which you're more likely to continue using in future.

This recent benchmark generated a lot of discussion:

http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

Read the comments as well as the numbers in order to get a feel for how benchmarks never show the full picture.

For a web server I personally would pick from Nginx and Cherokee. They're both extremely lightweight and scale better than Apache. Nginx is more popularly supported wheras Cherokee is better documented and has a glossy admin (which makes things easier to figure out initially but more difficult to script).

For a WSGI server I like uWSGI because it seems performant and I get the feeling it has much of the community behind it. uwsgi is well supported by both Cherokee and Nginx.

Hope that helps :> Let us know what you go for.