> > I'm not sure what you meant by "simply using nginx" since as far as I > know it doesn't have standard WSGI module.
I use Nginx w/ WSGI (Django running under uWSGI, communicating w/ WSGI Protocol) out of the box. No special modules or anything were installed -- just a quick download and compile of the source package. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Alexander <homo.programme...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Bolang, > > I'm not sure what you meant by "simply using nginx" since as far as I > know it doesn't have standard WSGI module. I hope you're not talking > about running WSGI application as CGI script, do you? > > As to comparing Gunicorn to gevent-fastcgi Gunocorn is HTTP server and > gevent-fastcg is FastCGI one. FastCGI can run over UNIX domain > sockets, it can multiplex requests using single connection. That could > be deal-breaker when application is using long-polling requests and > there are thousands of clients that can be accessing it > simultaneously. Beside HTTP is not well suited for communication > between frontend and backend (just recall famous need to fix > hostname:port in backend server responses because backend server has > no way to get access to original HTTP-request and it might not even > know that there is something that makes request on behalf of client > browser). There is no such problems in FastCGI protocol because it was > specifically designed for frontend/backend communication. > > Gevent-fastcgi is not well suited for any type of applications. The > application should not block since everything is run in the same > thread (there are greenlets that are used in place of thread to avoid > GIL). Not all databases and other external resources can be used in > non-blocking mode. Luckily PostgreSQL, MySQL, Memcache are those that > have adapters/hooks for making them work well in non-blocking manner. > > Alex > > Bolang wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > What is the advantage of using gevent-fastcgi instead of simply using > > nginx and maybe with gunicorn? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
