Thank you very much! i am going to give uWSGI standalone mode a try!
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Roberto De Ioris <robe...@unbit.it> wrote: > > > I would like to know about uWSGI . i haven't tried it yet. > > > > 1 - Is that a gateway to interface between other web servers ? > > (Apache/Cherokee/nginx etc) > > it depends, if you need a specific webserver front-end you can use it and > connect to uWSGI via one of the supported protocols (oviously the uwsgi > protocol is the suggested one). > > Normally, putting an application directly connected to the public network > is not a good idea. So you will very probably ends always putting uWSGI > behind some sort of "filter" (read: webserver/webrouter/loadbalancer) > > > > 2 - It seems that can be use as a webserver alone but how it works. Is > > that > > reliable /Fast? > > again, it depends on your setup. > > If you put static assets on another host, you only need a "filter" before > your app, and you can use the included http-router. > > It can manages thousand of HTTP requests (in non blocking way) and forward > them to uWSGI nodes. This area is fastly evolving (like persistent > connections support, sctp and automatic clustering management) and could > be interesting from a "research" poin of view. > > Serving static files via uWSGI could be really fast if you have few > concurrent connections, but it cannot reach nginx/cherokee performance on > request storming (by default uWSGI concurrency is limited by the number of > spawned threads/processes) > > > 3 - It was mentioned that The download/upload corruption do not happen in > > uWSGI , how you use it? Stanalone or as an gateway/interface for other > > webserver/reverse proxy? > > > > If you want to follow the "solid path", use some rock-solid webserver > (like nginx, cherokee or apache) forwarding requests to one (or more) > uWSGI nodes. > > If you plan to have dozens of nodes with ultra scalability with no effort, > try to follow the http-router development (even if you could need > something like nginx/haproxy for managing https connections). > > > -- > Roberto De Ioris > http://unbit.it >
