Google Web Server

Web Server used by www.google.it seems to be GWS/2.1?

Does anyone knows this server, and if it is open source?

thanks

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:56:28 +0200, Antonio wrote:
> Web Server used by www.google.it seems to be GWS/2.1?
>
> Does anyone knows this server, and if it is open source?

Netcraft said this in May:

With this month's survey, Netcraft has begun tracking Google's custom
web server software known as GFE (Google Front End), which is currently
found on 2.7 million hostnames, or 2.3% of all sites. Google customizes
its web infrastructure, with in-house solutions for software and
hardware, including energy-efficient servers and power supplies. GFE is
the server found on Blogger sites at blogspot.com, while Google uses
GWS (Google Web Server) on some other services, although none with the
volume of hostnames seen at Blogger.

The GFE hostnames had previously been grouped under Apache, which sees
a reduction in sites. As a result, Apache's market share slips by 2.86
percent to 56 percent, while Windows has a modest gain of 0.36% to 31.5
percent.

So I'd guess GWS is Google's customization of Apache. Since they're not
distributing it, there's no reason to suppose their customizations are
available.

Bob T.