From their website: "But G-WAN was written to have an application server, so it also supports 7 of the most popular scripted languages: Java, C#, C/C++, D and Objective-C/C++."
As far as I can tell, G-WAN does not support the features or languages that many people want. As a Ruby programmer, G-WAN is (probably) impossible for me to use, and if I could fiddle with it enough to get it working, it would not provide enough of a benefit to justify replacing a working nginx setup.
There's also the prevalence of tutorials, books, and StackOverflow answers related to nginx; G-WAN is pretty sparse in this regard.
Basically: the eternal balancing act of "features" vs "speed." nginx hits a sweet spot for features & speed for more people than G-WAN.
Nginx doesn't really support Ruby either. You need an app server, either compiled in like Passenger or one you proxy to like Unicorn. Is the second option not available here?
As far as I can tell, G-WAN does not support the features or languages that many people want. As a Ruby programmer, G-WAN is (probably) impossible for me to use, and if I could fiddle with it enough to get it working, it would not provide enough of a benefit to justify replacing a working nginx setup.
There's also the prevalence of tutorials, books, and StackOverflow answers related to nginx; G-WAN is pretty sparse in this regard.
Basically: the eternal balancing act of "features" vs "speed." nginx hits a sweet spot for features & speed for more people than G-WAN.