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I am running an alpha version of my app on a EC2 Small instance (1.7 GB RAM) with postgres and apache (wsgi-mod not as daemon but directly) on it.
Performance is alright, but it could be better. I am also worried about memory usage if too many test users would join.
Is it wise to switch from Apache to nginx server? Has any Django developer done that and is happier with the results? Any other tips on the way are also welcome.
Thanks
We are using nginx together with our Django app in a gunicorn server. The performance is quite good so far, but I have not done any direct comparisons with an Apache setup. Memory usage is quite small, nginx takes about 10MB memory and gunicorn about 150MB (but it also servers more than one app). Of course this may vary from app to app.
I would suggest to simply give it a try, it should be quite easy to set up following some tutorials on the web and/or on the gunicorn website. Also get some comparable test case and use some kind of monitoring software like munin to see changes over time.