Google server running cPanel

While setting up a web-server is not a big deal, cPanel makes the whole process so much easier. Seemingly, Google takes the advantages of this software, too. We already knew that Google uses the open-source and so-popular Apache web-server, most likely because it can be adapted to various situations and has the lowest footprint yet amazing capabilities. But that they use cPanel is a new thing, here’s the proof:

cPanel is good for beginner server administrators, but for professionals it’s like a WYSWYG editor for the web-developers. It’s good cos it’s simple to use, bad, because it adds one more daemon process to the persistent processes list, which is less than ideal for servers which are bombarded with so many connections like the Google servers.

Another thing which is interesting: as I stated above cPanel makes setting up web-servers extremely easy. But why do Google need this help when the employment requirements for a server administrator job are the following :

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 - 5 years experience with UNIX systems administration (5-15 years for Senior position).
• Solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python.
• Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience.
• Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.
• Tack-sharp analytical abilities.
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Fluent written communication and unusual verbal agility are strong assets.
• SQL experience a plus, MySQL a plus.
• Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus.

The picture was taken when we typed “google.com” in the address-bar of Firefox and we resolved to that page. This can be caused by they putting the server too fast in the cluster, even before they could mirror the homepage’s software.

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