My website, niflet.com, is written in Go. It uses Go's web server. While in learning mode for Go I saw that others were using Nginx instead. Now that I've gone through the development process I can see why. Go's web server is basic. Things like compressing files, setting header values and other niceties you have to write yourself or look for code written by contributors [1]. It's not as bad as it sounds though. Go has a function for serving static files like CSS files, which I wrapped in a function to serve a zipped version if the client supports that.

If I had it to do over again I would still use Go's web server, as it seems to work great. My site can conservatively handle 1 million page views hourly, using a cheap box.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...