Gunicorn vs. lighttpd

Gunicorn runs as the HTTP application server. Serves the django application in WSGI mode.

HTTP Server

Gunicorn is used as the backend webserver

Gunicorn is WSGI container that we used to run our Tornado code as it supports Asynchronous operations on tornado.

Runs my Django based API through nginx.

WSGI server to host Flask application

Application server

uWSGI server that is easy to configure with Nginx and Django

web server + dos attack blocking

Lightweight with built-in support for CGI scripts.