Actually, using order_by('?') is the worst thing possible, especially in a
largish db in production.
Why?
That query generated is SELECT .... FROM .... WHERE .... ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT N
where the random function is executed for every row in the result set which
is ordered by the generated value. As I'm sure you can imagine, running
this on a medium sized db table will be _slow_
Check out
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/962619/how-to-pull-a-random-record-using-djangos-orm
for
better options
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