There's probably nothing inherently wrong or slow with running Django through nginx. That said, one of the most common deployment strategies is gunicorn. It's

There's probably nothing inherently wrong or slow with running Django through nginx. That said, one of the most common deployment strategies is gunicorn. It's better documented [1], and it's always good to separate your web app server from your static file server/CDN. [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/gunicorn/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/...