Ask HN: Anyone used G-WAN web server?

That entire website seems to be made up of absolutely hilarious claims. Some highlights: Existing software will be obsolete within 5-10 years!

An engineer, used to resolving problems qualified as “impossible” by all others, has developed a technology which outdoes everything else by several orders of magnitude, and has implemented it in the “most strategic software product of all”, the Application Server

RFC 2617 makes it obvious that its design (Verisign and Microsoft, 1999) was purposely flawed to sell (Verisign) SSL certificates that delegate the whole security chain to... Verisign (Certificate Authority) and Microsoft (the CA repository, in charge of CA queries and CA validation).

Why make your own KV store when so many others already exist? – For the same reason that G-WAN was needed: they just do it wrong.

The FAQ also informs us that we need to run it on Ubuntu LTS, because all other releases are "beta".

It is an amusing read though. Love the "G-WAN RULEZ" badge too ;-)

Let's say the benchmarks are accurate, and it really can serve twice as many 100 byte files as nginx. Is your entire application based around serving as many 100 byte files as possible? No? Then the benchmarks as meaningless to you.

I found an interview with the creator:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august082011/g-wan-intern...

and here are the discussion forums g-wan, it seems that at least some people are using it:

http://forum.gwan.com/