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Why Ubuntu is highly recommended for uWSGI and Nginx installation?

I am new to Django integration with uWSGI and Nginx. Most of the tutorials in internet requires Ubuntu to test it.

I am on Windows, Does they work in Windows ?

If not should I install Ubuntu / Linux OS to work with it ?

Solution

  • There are a couple of reasons why Ubuntu/Linux is recommended:

    • NGINX itself has some known issues if running on Windows. It is generally recommended to run it on *NIX systems
    • Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution

    You can easily install/run NGINX without issues on virtually any Linux distro, but the number of tutorials for Ubuntu specifically will be prevalent due to its popularity.

    That said, I personally choose CentOS/RHEL as it's more targeted towards enterprise/security, which sounds like something quite needed for web hosting.