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What is the best way to deploy Django?

16th June 2013

My answer to What is the best way to deploy Django? on Quora

These days a popular and reliable method is to run gunicorn behind nginx. This tutorial includes notes on using upstart for process management which is handy if you are on Ubuntu: http://lincolnloop.com/django-be...

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