[ianb]

Maybe try http://cloudsilverlining.org (http://cloudsilverlining.org/django-quickstart.html)

Anyway, Apache/mod_wsgi is perfectly fine and I wouldn't bother tweaking out that part unless you have an issue with it.

I'd strongly recommend using a cloud provider so you can test your deployment process. You can do it without a cloud provider, but you probably won't because it won't be trivially easy to create new servers.