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Other than claims by the author of G-WAN, I've yet to see anybody claiming that G-WAN outperforms Nginx. I also cannot find any evidence of anybody using G-WAN

Other than claims by the author of G-WAN, I've yet to see anybody claiming that G-WAN outperforms Nginx. I also cannot find any evidence of anybody using G-WAN in serious production. I could be wrong of course, but every time I've inquired about it, nobody responds. I also cannot find any kind of community around G-WAN. Also, it seems that a lot of the "performance" in G-WAN is thanks to its microcaching feature. When it's under high concurrent load, it caches requests for about 1 second. I suppose it's useful on public cacheable responses and useful in benchmarks, but does this really count as "faster" in the sense that G-WAN is a faster system overall? I don't know. That being said, G-WAN has many interesting aspects indeed.

future_grad 13y ago
"I also cannot find any evidence of anybody using G-WAN in serious production." This. This. I find more articles about why NOT to use G-WAN more than anything.
fredsted 13y ago
>I've yet to see anybody claiming that G-WAN outperforms Nginx. What about this? http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static-files-which-server-to-use/ http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static... http://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/ http://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/
jlgreco 13y ago
> Other than claims by the author of G-WAN It doesn't really help that the author gives off some mild "losethos" style vibes (the rantings about open source software, the weird "buy an encrypted archive of the source" thing, etc.) I'm sure it is very impressive in some very limited circumstances, but it really isn't something that I want to get close to. I can't trust people so.. untrusting.
- icebraining 13y ago
  Speaking of losethos, the guy hasn't posted in twenty days, which is an hard break from his routine. I hope he's OK.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    Hmm, you're right. Maybe the NSA stuff has scared him offline.

future_grad 13y ago

"I also cannot find any evidence of anybody using G-WAN in serious production." This. This. I find more articles about why NOT to use G-WAN more than anything.

fredsted 13y ago

>I've yet to see anybody claiming that G-WAN outperforms Nginx. What about this? http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static-files-which-server-to-use/ http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static... http://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/ http://www.rootusers.com/web-server-performance-benchmark/

jlgreco 13y ago

> Other than claims by the author of G-WAN It doesn't really help that the author gives off some mild "losethos" style vibes (the rantings about open source software, the weird "buy an encrypted archive of the source" thing, etc.) I'm sure it is very impressive in some very limited circumstances, but it really isn't something that I want to get close to. I can't trust people so.. untrusting.

icebraining 13y ago
Speaking of losethos, the guy hasn't posted in twenty days, which is an hard break from his routine. I hope he's OK.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Hmm, you're right. Maybe the NSA stuff has scared him offline.