Can I use daphne as a drop in replacement for gunicorn in production?

[skfidan-apothecare]

Generally people recommend running Daphne and Gunicorn while using nginx to route requests to the appropriate application.

I would set this up but it would mean moving from our current managed hosting with automated build and deploy. We are a small team so we would like to keep the benefits of managed hosting over setting up our own Ubuntu server.

I know Daphne can be used for HTTP and Websocket requests but should it be in a live production environment? Are there likely to be any issues with performance, maintenance, etc?

[skfidan-apothecare]

Sorry, for context this is for a Django application