Google Web Server GWS/2.1

Originally posted in 2006 or 2007, I can't remember.

I have been seeing a lot about this "new" web server that Google has been running. Well, I guess it's not that new. Its been around for about a year or so now however it's new to me. I'm wondering if this is ever going to be released to anyone outside of Google. Did they have worries about using an open source web server that everyone else on the internet can use? Were their programmers bored and figured they would tweak apache 'a little bit?'

My feelings about the GWS, Google Web Server is that Google loves to tweak things. They have custom MySQL databases, and perhaps i should also say "MySQL" with a pinch of salt with all their custom tweaks to allow their servers to squeak out every megahertz possible. And I'm fairly certain this is another instance where they began using Apache but tweak after tweak it slowly began a life of its own.

I'm not sure to be honest, and checking around other sites, there aren't many conversations going on about the Google web server.

I'd imagine there's more to follow for Google's in-house Web Server...