Nginx+n performs pretty well in general against Apache, and in my experience nginx as a front to something like uWSGI for Django is very easy to set up and use.

Nginx+n performs pretty well in general against Apache, and in my experience nginx as a front to something like uWSGI for Django is very easy to set up and use. There was a comparison of the various Nginx+n stacks, I think Nginx+uWSGI won out, with Gunicorn in a close second.