Making Django development server faster at serving static media

Question

I'm using the Django manage.py runserver for developing my application (obviously), but it takes 10 seconds to completely load a page because the development server is very, very slow at serving static media.

Is there any way to speed it up or some kind of workaround? I'm using Windows 7.

Answer 1

Consider using mod_wsgi instead, and having httpd handle the static media.

Answer 2

Development server is simple unsafe single-threaded application, so you cannot do much.

One trick you could try is to redirect /site_media to second development server, but this is ugly and probably wouldn't help that much. So you could try bundling/compressing multiple assets into one css/js (e.g. using YUI Compressor).

And in any case, you should have separate static media server, that can serve multiple assets at once.