Gunicorn ‘Green Unicorn’ is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It’s 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 resource usage, and fairly speedy.
This is free and open source software.
Key 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 3.x >= 3.5.
Website: gunicorn.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Benoît Chesneau
License: MIT License
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|---|---|
| Tornado | Web framework, web server, and asynchronous networking library |
| Gunicorn | Python WSGI HTTP Server |
| Phusion Passenger | Web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js |
| uWSGI | Aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services |
| Twisted | Networking engine supporting numerous protocols such as a web server |
| Zope | Zope stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment" |
| CherryPy | Pythonic, object-oriented web framework |
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