Why?
> One is that WhiteNoise is designed to work in situations where Apache, nginx
> and the like aren’t easily available. But more importantly, it’s easy to
> underestimate what’s involved in serving static files correctly
We deal with both these situations:
* for local development, we recommend running with DEBUG=False and still want to
sever staticfiles
* for deploying using nginx/whatever, I'd like to keep my instructions as simple
as possible, and doing this right once (in whitenoise) saves us from having to
come up with the right instructions for a bunch of webservers.