Green Unicorn

gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and nothing else.

This is a port of Unicorn (http://unicorn.bogomips.org/) in Python. Meet us on #gunicorn irc channel on Freenode.

Gunicorn is under MIT License. see LICENSE file for more details.

Features

  • Designed for WSGI, Unix and fast clients.
  • Compatible with Python 2.x superior to 2.5
  • Easy integration with Django and Paster compatible applications (Pylons, Turbogears 2, ...)
  • Process management: Gunicorn reap and restart workers that die.
  • Load balancing done by the os
  • Graceful restart of workers
  • Upgrade "àla nginx" without losing connections
  • Simple and easy Python DSL for configuration
  • Decode chunked transfers on-the-fly, allowing upload progress notifications or stream-based protocols over HTTP.