Is Apache slow in some obvious manner?<p>If so, wouldn't time be better invested in improving that?<p>Since the bulk of the web runs apache, that'd be the best way to improve the speed of the web, no?
They did make their own server, they just don't talk about it much.<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_web_server/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_web_server/</a><p>This the reason you see:<p><pre><code> server:gws
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in the response headers when you visit Google.com.<p>The real question is whether or not they should open-source it... and I'd lean in the "yes" direction, but I'm biased.
Google has a few web servers internally for different purposes. Maybe they'll open source something one day much like kubernetes, a simplified example of what they have. To be honest web serving is more about configuration than speed. Serving a lot of traffic isn't difficult these days. We solved the c10k problem long ago.
That's pretty much what the google cloud platform is about.
<a href="https://cloud.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/</a>