What is Waitress?
It is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 2.7+ and Python 3.4+. It is also known to run on PyPy 1.6.0 on UNIX.
Waitress is a tool in the Web Server Interface category of a tech stack.
Waitress is an open source tool with 1.5K GitHub stars and 178 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Waitress's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Waitress?
Companies
Developers
15 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Waitress.
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Waitress's Features
- Production-quality WSGI server
- Dont hang a thread up trying to send data to slow clients
- Use self.logger to log socket errors instead of self.log_info (normalize)
- Remove pointless handle_error method from channel
- Queue requests instead of tasks in a channel
Waitress Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Waitress?
Gunicorn
Gunicorn is a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.
uWSGI
The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
