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Besides impressing benchmarks,

does anyone really uses G-WAN web server?

(except of cource gwan.ch and trustleap.com)

Gil
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Nick
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    The developer is a genius clearly (read the gwan about), and beyond creating an absolutely insanely fast, massively scalable application server, seems to have one thing in mind: massive profit. An Open source project G-WAN is not, which is fine, G-WAN developer is Bill Gates to (Nginx, Apache, Node.js, etc.) Linus Torvolds. G-WAN's forum has been closed, apparently due to FUDites taking exception to his bank account. I too was impressed with the benchmarks, but the open source alternatives are more than sufficient for my needs... – virtualeyes Dec 28 '11 at 19:07
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    Nope. I've not used in a production enviroment due this facts: not FreeSoftware or OpenSource, just one tech developer on the team, very little comunity, you just can receive support by paying $$, really new on the market, not well tested, unkown bussines that are using it in production enviroments and the fact that the main developer is *very* aggresive and says that his product is the best in all the aspects. I agree with virtualeyes about the hungry of massive profits. There are much more better solutions out there, well tested and with a greater comunity. – krenel Apr 27 '12 at 11:04

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G-WAN is a freeware, that means that people are not under the obligation of paying a license to use it for commercial purposes.

Having participated to write some of their code, I am aware of Web sites using G-WAN for different applications platforms:

  • auctions
  • advertising
  • yellow pages
  • social network
  • geographic maps
  • multimedia streaming
  • trading.

But this is merely my personal experience. I must say that G-WAN has allowed me to do things that could not be done with other servers like:

  • using cheap virtual servers where I would have had to use dedicated servers
  • using the same Web server to create applications in different languages
  • creating applications which rely on different programming languages
  • test code modifications without having to redeploy packages or modify configurations -etc.

G-WAN, at least for me, has been a game-changer.

I do not understand the comment of "Virtualeyes" since my customers did not pay a dime to the G-WAN author. I just paid him 149 CHF, not because I was obliged to do it but rather because I wanted to thank him for the hard work.

By the way, that's Linus Torvalds, not "Linus Torvolds".

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