Tornado web server/framework

Question

I am a bit confused, Tornado is web server like a apache http server, or a framework like django, or both?

Thanks

Answer 1

Tornado is a server and framework if you want to make some apps with it.

I use Tornado to serve my django apps, with help of nginx (load balancer to run more than 1 Tornado instance) and supervisor to make those tornados live if my apps fail.

I use WebFaction and the performance of my apps got better with Tornado instead of serving them with apache.