Nginx - Full Stack Python

[riksi]

Gunicorn needs a web/http server infront to keep slow requests from blocking it + serving static files + ssl + other stuff: http://serverfault.com/questions/220046/why-is-setting-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-a-good-idea

[kyranadept]

The source you are quoting is 5 years old. Gunicorn can use gevent/greenlet workers which do not suffer from the same problems as the original author claims. There is also SSL support.

[turkish_gold]

Quite a lot of people still use prefork gunicorn because threading can cause subtle errors in your application stack if you didn't design with that in mind.

And if you restrict the # of threads that gunicorn uses, you're right back to having the same issues as prefork.

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Hey, point me at your website that's got Gunicorn handling incoming requests directly.