Gunicorn
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Original author(s) | Benoit Chesneau |
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Developer(s) | Gunicorn Developers |
Initial release | 20 February 2010 |
Stable release | 19.3
/ March 6, 2015[1] |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Available in | English |
Type | Web server |
License | MIT License |
Website | www |
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.[2]
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+[3]
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