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.