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Host Django site on windows on lan

I have a site that I want to expose to a bunch of colleagues that serves as an interface for some Machine learning tools.

I’ve made the site in Django 2.0 and would like to serve it from a small windows PC under my desk, and then from a more dedicated server once it’s operational.

I’ve had a look around and it looks like my options are using uWSGI or Django it self to serve the site. Obviously Django is mich slower, but on a PC with an i5 i recon it should be able to handle a couple of requests a minute, which is the peak traffic I’m expecting.

FastCGI appears to be depreciated, so what other options, prioritizing ease of confit on my part are there?

Solution

  • So anyone in a similar situation:

    I ended up using waitress as the server and whitenoise to serve the static files.

    This appears to work sufficiently fast and requires little configuration, once you have have worked out how to get the static files going with whitenoise.