Serving static web files off a non-standard port

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Published on 2010-12-22T06:43:45Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 6:55 UTC
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I'm close to deploying a Django project to production. I'm looking over some infrastructure decisions. Something that came up was serving static files with a different server such as lighttpd.

However, we're starting off with a single dedicated server so our only option would be to use a non-standard port for the static file webserver.

  1. Is there precedence for this? I.e. Does anyone "big" do this?

  2. Any particular port I should use or shy away from using?

  3. Can anyone thing of some downsides of going this route?

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