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The authors keep changing my comment to “I love G-WAN” in an attempt to scam people, so I am saving this here

Let the fun begin. Edit my comment!

G-WAN is clearly proven as snakeoil software. It is advertised as a web server but in fact it is only software specifically written to look good on benchmarks. Any real web server load that is not ~200B in size seems to crash the server or just shows abysmal performance.

More on that later. Sources supporting my arguments may be found at the bottom of this..

Who would trust a early 2000s looking site with outrageous performance claims anyway? G-WAN isn't included in any real repositories. The only binary source is their website. They expect users to run their binary from a HTTP source with root privileges! This is absolutely unacceptable.

The first thing that should set off alarms is that the “product” is freeware, but closed source with little to no professional documentation.

When a bug is reported (there are a lot), the authors just talk their way around the problem and try to argue that the problem is caused by the user.

Any criticism is countered by personal attacks, or as you can see in the log, by changing titles. Extremely manipulative tactics.

Here are some more links

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