Django compressor has another issue on load balanced environments: the cached key uses the hostname of the machine , which really made it impractical for us. I promised Jannis a clean patch for this, but haven't found the time to do so...

In our case we have a utility machine that compiles media and deployes it but that machine doesn't even run a webserver at all...

https://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor/blob/develop/com...