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pythonmod-wsgicherrypy

Cherrypy vs. Apache/mod_wsgi

What are pros/cons?

-Stability

-Developer friendliness

-System resources

-Scalability

Solution

  • In my experience the best performance is by running a WSGI app with a WSGI server like FAPWS or gevent (some benchmarks here: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers). Then you can configure nginx with proxy_pass.