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Gunicorn (HTTP server)

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Original author(s)
  
Benoit Chesneau

Development status
  
Active

Developer(s)
  
Gunicorn Developers

Written in
  
Python

Initial release
  
20 February 2010; 7 years ago (2010-02-20)

Stable release
  
19.6 / May 21, 2016; 9 months ago (2016-05-21)

The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" is a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) HTTP server. It is a pre-fork worker model, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with a number of web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources and fairly fast.

Features

  • Natively supports WSGI, web2py, Django and Paster
  • Automatic worker process management
  • Simple Python configuration
  • Multiple worker configurations
  • Various server hooks for extensibility
  • Compatible with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+

    • References

    Gunicorn (HTTP server) Wikipedia
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