Serving static web files off a non-standard port
- by Nimmy Lebby
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.
Is there precedence for this? I.e. Does anyone "big" do this?
Any particular port I should use or shy away from using?
Can anyone thing of some downsides of going this route?