What are the advantages of using Paste instead of Apache/nginx as a Python web server?
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Why has quora and reddit chose to go with using Paster as their web server, proxied by HAProxy instead of apache/nginx? Are there performance reasons? What about serving static content like js files and images?
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Answer:
They're probably using a CDN to serve the bulk of the static content and Paster to serve the dynamic content from their app servers -- in any case, I'd be surprised if they didn't have nginx/apache/similar to serve static content to the CDN, but it wouldn't be strictly necessary.
Matt Billenstein at Quora Visit the source
Other answers
It was my understanding that they used pylons for this site? Paste is the default way to serve a pylons app. I would guess that the main advantage was ease of deployment.
Kevin Beckford
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