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General remarks
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Requirements
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To use pretix, you will need the following things:
* **pretix** and the python packages it depends on
* An **WSGI application server** (we recommend gunicorn)
* A periodic task runner, e.g. ``cron``
* **A database**. This needs to be a SQL-based that is supported by Django. We highly recommend to either
go for **PostgreSQL** or **MySQL/MariaDB**. If you do not provide one, pretix will run on SQLite, which is useful
for evaluation and development purposes.
.. warning:: Do not ever use SQLite in production. It will break.
* A **reverse proxy**. pretix needs to deliver some static content to your users (e.g. CSS, images, ...). While pretix
is capable of doing this, having this handled by a proper web server like **nginx** or **Apache** will be much
faster. Also, you need a proxying web server in front to provide SSL encryption.
.. warning:: Do not ever run without SSL in production. Your users deserve encrypted connections and thanks to
`Let's Encrypt`_ SSL certificates can be obtained for free these days.
* A **redis** server. This will be used for caching, session storage and task queuing.
.. warning:: pretix can run without redis, however this is only intended for development and should never be
used in production.
* Optionally: RabbitMQ or memcached. Both of them might provide speedups, but if they are not present,
redis will take over their job.
.. _Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/