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Techies are just as mistrusting, and that mistrust is warranted. Maybe google.com doesn't go down, but my broadband does occasionally go down, which is effectivally identical to google.com being down for me. My job (a major university with multiple connections to different providers) has an outage perhaps once a year. Ignoring full outages, minor hiccups cause things like Google Spreadsheets to occasionally pop up the "Warning: You have been disconnected and your data has not been saved" message. Meanwhile, given the rapid rise and fall of services, do you really trust a given service to be there tomorrow? Google's not going anywhere, but is UberWebSpreadsheet3000 going to be there tomorrow? Anyone who thinks major service providers don't have outages should check Netcraft's coverage. If MySpace and Wikipedia, can be taken out by a power outage, so can lots of mid-size providers. If for-pay companies like Final Fantasy XI's game servers, online payment site StormPay, or domain registrar Joker's DNS servers can be taken down by DDOS, so can lots of other online businesses for which people pay for reliable access.

A bit of mistrust in online services, especially if you rely on that service, seems like the prudent thing to do.

Techies are just as mistrusting, and that mistrust is warranted. Maybe google.com doesn't go down, but my broadband does occasionally go down, which is effectivally identical to google.com being down for me. My job (a major university with multiple connections to different providers) has an outage perhaps once a year. Ignoring full outages, minor hiccups cause things like Google Spreadsheets to occasionally pop up the "Warning: You have been disconnected and your data has not been saved" message. Meanwhile, given the rapid rise and fall of services, do you really trust a given service to be there tomorrow? Google's not going anywhere, but is UberWebSpreadsheet3000 going to be there tomorrow? Anyone who thinks major service providers don't have outages should check Netcraft's coverage. If MySpace and Wikipedia, can be taken out by a power outage, so can lots of mid-size providers. If for-pay companies like Final Fantasy XI's game servers, online payment site StormPay, or domain registrar Joker's DNS servers can be taken down by DDOS, so can lots of other online businesses for which people pay for reliable access.

A bit of mistrust in online services, especially if you rely on that service, seems like the prudent thing to do.

Techies are just as mistrusting, and that mistrust is warranted. Maybe google.com doesn't go down, but my broadband does occasionally go down, which is effectivally identical to google.com being down for me. My job (a major university with multiple connections to different providers) has an outage perhaps once a year. Ignoring full outages, minor hiccups cause things like Google Spreadsheets to occasionally pop up the "Warning: You have been disconnected and your data has not been saved" message. Meanwhile, given the rapid rise and fall of services, do you really trust a given service to be there tomorrow? Google's not going anywhere, but is UberWebSpreadsheet3000 going to be there tomorrow? Anyone who thinks major service providers don't have outages should check Netcraft's coverage. If MySpace and Wikipedia, can be taken out by a power outage, so can lots of mid-size providers. If for-pay companies like Final Fantasy XI's game servers, online payment site StormPay, or domain registrar Joker's DNS servers can be taken down by DDOS, so can lots of other online businesses for which people pay for reliable access.

A bit of mistrust in online services, especially if you rely on that service, seems like the prudent thing to do.

Techies are just as mistrusting, and that mistrust is warranted. Maybe google.com doesn't go down, but my broadband does occasionally go down, which is effectivally identical to google.com being down for me. My job (a major university with multiple connections to different providers) has an outage perhaps once a year. Ignoring full outages, minor hiccups cause things like Google Spreadsheets to occasionally pop up the "Warning: You have been disconnected and your data has not been saved" message. Meanwhile, given the rapid rise and fall of services, do you really trust a given service to be there tomorrow? Google's not going anywhere, but is UberWebSpreadsheet3000 going to be there tomorrow? Anyone who thinks major service providers don't have outages should check Netcraft's coverage. If MySpace and Wikipedia, can be taken out by a power outage, so can lots of mid-size providers. If for-pay companies like Final Fantasy XI's game servers, online payment site StormPay, or domain registrar Joker's DNS servers can be taken down by DDOS, so can lots of other online businesses for which people pay for reliable access.

A bit of mistrust in online services, especially if you rely on that service, seems like the prudent thing to do.

Phishing crews have been targeting web site vulnerabilities to deploy spoof sites for several years. In its year-end 2005 Phishing by the Numbers report, Netcraft noted that more than 600 phishing spoof sites were hosted on compromised forums and content management systems in 2005. In January hackers increased their targeting of PHP-based CMS and blogging apps, and were able to distribute the Windows WMF malware through a customer support forum on AMD's web site. There's nothing cutting edge at all about this.

Phishing crews have been targeting web site vulnerabilities to deploy spoof sites for several years. In its year-end 2005 Phishing by the Numbers report, Netcraft noted that more than 600 phishing spoof sites were hosted on compromised forums and content management systems in 2005. In January hackers increased their targeting of PHP-based CMS and blogging apps, and were able to distribute the Windows WMF malware through a customer support forum on AMD's web site. There's nothing cutting edge at all about this.

Putting their best spin on recent web news, Microsoft spokesvole Andy Nonymous told reporters gathered at a press conference about M$'s radical new Interweb.

"For years we've been telling the free software terrorists that they were bad for business and their work was hurting disabled people and killing puppies, this drives the point home."

"We stood silent as Sendmail replaced the far more disable friendly US Post Office, but formulated a plan." At this he cackled like a fiend. "We made M$ Word the default editor for email, though most people rejected this. It really hurt us to see the demise of 3m word attachments as a means of conveying 1k of text."

"As Apache on Linux took over the world wide web, we were stunned and shaken that people who wanted to stay in business avoided our IIS unless we paid them to use it."

"It was in Mass. that we finally realized that our email strategy right all along. M$ Word is the only blind free format in existence and we are now pressing for it's use as a standard for all interweb pages! This is indeed the cheap and easy solution the good people at Mindcraft are talking about. Victory at last."

A stunned silence settled on the conference. One or two hands came up but and Nonymous nodded off stage.

A huge, sweaty, bald man with a chair then danced onto the stage carrying a $2,000, 75lb office chair raised over his head. "Any questions?" he asked through a truly demented grin. And there were none. He had fucking killed them.

Can you please show us all where Linux is eating Microsofts lunch? I have yet to see a report showing linux eating anything other than college hobbyists and a very small server markets left overs. At best Linux is eating into Unix market share, specifically the small scraps Windows doesn't consume as it grows.

Even OsX has over taken linux as a desktop OS.

As for there being more linux developers than windows... thats great, let me know when they write something other than yet another version of minesweeper (or some other crappy knockoff game), the 32nd chat client that sucks, the 200th+ text editor we don't need. Better yet, the 50th crappy desktop shell. Quality over quantity here. Sad to say, Microsoft has better quality (clearly not security, but in every other way, they have quality).

Before you bitch about bloat and blue screens (the common misinformed linux answer), lets look at KDE and emacs for bloat, and find me a knowledgeable computer person that ever gets blue screens anymore. Yes they happen, but with linux they actually patch IN blue screens. I know I don't get them and haven't seen one since XP was released(other than with beta drivers or intentional bad configurations).

Explain this then.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html/

Yes. They said that they use BSD themselves , so fuck off!

Linux survives not because of the reason you state but because it managed to gain a foothold during the BSD lawsuit crisis, giving it momentum.

You can say whatever you like - but the server vendor you chose uses linux. (presumably you chose them because of their superior price & service?).

"Limiting what others can do" with my handy work is the opposite of freedom.

Only partially correct.

People like the BSD guys, who give without strings are the true believers in freedom.
People like the GNU guys, who give & stipulate you must give back are pragmatic believers in freedom.
People like the Jobs/Gates, who don't give at all are.... believers in nothing.

You are aware that pretty much every US web business with any presence in China does just that?

Their China-based sites have to follow local laws. That's what "presence in X" means -- operations in a given country. (or do you think I have a "presence in" China for just having a website? I don't have one, and Chinese law can stuff it.) But US-based sites do not have to. And the NY Times is a US-based site.

That's why a US court ruled that the US-based Yahoo auction site did not have to pull Nazi memorabilia, but the French Yahoo auction site does obey the law.

Netcraft confirms it: Site report for www.nytimes.com -- US address, and that IP netblock is owned by NTT America, Inc.

I much prefer the www.cbc.ca

Try netcraft on their webservers...the Toronto Star is using Solaris/Netscape
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.thestar.com

but the cbc.ca is using linux (in fact, LAMP) all the way!
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.cbc.ca

Go, CBC, go! :-)

I much prefer the www.cbc.ca

Try netcraft on their webservers...the Toronto Star is using Solaris/Netscape
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.thestar.com

but the cbc.ca is using linux (in fact, LAMP) all the way!
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.cbc.ca

Go, CBC, go! :-)

Myspace is about as popular as slashdot, ranking 77 to slashdot's 75 on Netcraft. I realize that Netcraft isn't scientific since the results depend on people having the netcraft toolbar installed, but we can infer that they must have similar server capabilities. Sorry.

don't you wonder why:

a.) the site is still not slashdotted?
b.) the site is running MS IIE ( http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.steorn.net )?
c.) posting anonymous barely gets you modded high?

Well this as quick and dirty an analysis that you can get but I think it illustrates that you may be off by a bit...

for d in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin; do

strings $d/* | grep -i Copyright | grep "Free Software" | wc -l

done

Results:
/bin - 48
/sbin - 5
/usr/bin - 188
/usr/sbin - 4

So... There appears to be quite a few programs on my Debian GNU/Linux system that are still Copyright Free Software Foundation.
Bet hey, YMMV. Maybe I'm the only one running Debian.

Netcraft runs FreeBSD!

(And so does Distrowatch!)

Oh, The Irony!

Netcraft runs FreeBSD!

(And so does Distrowatch!)

Oh, The Irony!

WTF dose anyone, much less kids need jewelry for? Oh, yah to feel special. To let others know they are "rich".
http://www.juicycouture.com/recall/
Lead for Kids!
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/lead/recalls.shtml

Runs on a SUN server, you can tell right away by the "ico" image.
http://juicycouture.neimanmarcus.com/
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=juicycout ure.neimanmarcus.com

Reading is so fun.

The big issue on RSS security is Microsoft's integration of RSS into Vista. Given hackers' success targeting e-mail and browsers weaknesses, will Microsoft's implementation of RSS be better? Let's hope so. Netcraft wrote about this more than a year ago, but there's been very little discussion since. It's trivial to spoof and augment a feed. Rather than trying to target weaknesses in individual RSS readers, there's a single Microsoft implementation to test and attack. It's a game changer in terms of RSS' potential usefulness as a malware delivery channel.

Could that have anything to do with their choice in OS for their webserver? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /macosrumors.com

It might be tempting to think that, but according to (you guessed it) netcraft, slashdot.org is, at the time of writing, the 76th most visted site on the internet. Congruously to our current discussion, www.myspace.com is ranked 77th.

www.idolonfox.com/

Hey, look, it runs on IIS.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.nasa.gov

Doesn't confirm it?

And is Apache really more of an innovation than Linux?

You must be kidding, right? With Apache market share being 63% and Linux being what? Like 3%? Even if we're talking just about servers, it's got less then 30%. With Apache leading the web server innovation and Linux just trying to replicate more advanced OSes in OSS context (if we're talking about desktops)... ...sure, mod me down. Still, that doesn't prove me wrong.

Not to nitpick, but MySpace very famously runs Windows. It was developed in Cold Fusion and was later ported to some sort of CF/.Net hybrid.

I find it interesting that they're such big supporters of "Linux", yet their website is running Windows Server...

Maybe they could have handled the load if they were using apache and not lighthttpd. From netcraft:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.ohloh.net

>don't make me fucking laugh.

You're laughing? More like living in denial.

• Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market, chipping away at Apache's commanding lead
• Microsoft Corp. continued to grow its share of the relational database market in 2005
• Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time

But, hey, who needs facts for that "5" rating, when you just tell most slashdotters what they want to hear?

These guys confirm it

Netcraft confirms it: FreeDOS is dying!

based on this link from Netcraft the Aruba company website was on windows servers until 2004, then they have migrated to gnu/linux,

• Caldera in Erlangen runs openlinux.org site from 1998 or so.
• Caldera shuts down operation in Erlangen but leaves DNS entry intact.
• IP address is reallocated to Fachschaftsinitiative Informatik.
• Someone at FSI decides to play a little prank on SCO.
• openlinux.org entry is removed by SCO.

I don't think that the nameserver has been compromised. The site has always been at the same IP address. See its history at: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.openlinux.org

But it could still be a hoax or a compromised site. Google cache for openlinux.org only shows the "FSI INF" text, so the front page has been put up very recently. Also, releasedetail.cfm defaults to the same story, no matter which ID is supplied.

We know that GoDaddy is migrating to Microsoft. Now, the question that must be asked is: does this migration have anything to do with increased spam problems?

Don't tar all ADSL providers with the same brush. I have an "up to 8Mb" service, more like 4Mb in practice for £20 per month. More importantly for me, its got a 448k upload speed, and my IP address has never changed, even when I upgraded to a higher speed. Moreover, my provider doesn't complain about me running things like SMTP, HTTP, FTP or DNS servers like NTL used to.

The Netcraft anti-phishing Toolbar already protects PayPal users by blocking access to this site. IE and firefox users can download the toolbar as an extension to the browser and install it.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

Some labs build huge clusters, this new Windows flavor must cost less than the "Windows Beginners Edition [a.k.a. 3rd world edition]" (*) and provide impeccable service, otherwise it can't compete with opensource softwares.

There used to be a saying (maybe still is?) "You won't get fired for choosing IBM". Today this can easily be stated as: "You won't get fired for choosing Windows". There's plenty of CIO's that would rather pick the devil they know aka:Windows and have predictable and known problems that everyone else in the boardroom understands (and sadly expects!), than strike out into an 'unknown' platform with unknown risk for the sake of a coupl'a hundred grand -- and more importantly: risk their job.

Take a look at What Their Server is Running, and then tell me you are suprised.

Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ?

Yes, Netcraft has confirmed that Apache is now dead. Thank you.

As well as BSD: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.netcraft.com

However, since this survey is done monthly, the question is has it been credible in the past

If you read the link, the largest movement of sites from Apache to IIS was once again at Go Daddy, with over 1.6M hostnames moving from Apache to IIS this month. If you read netcraft news periodically, you'll find that in the past mont they said: The shift is driven by changes at domain registrar Go Daddy, which has just migrated more than 3.5 million hostnames from Linux to Windows. Go Daddy, which had been the world's largest Linux host, is now the world's largest Windows Server 2003 host, as measured by hostnames.

In other words, there's not a "trend". It's just that Go Daddy is switching to Windows.

If you continue reading, Michael van Dijken, Microsoft's Marketing Manager for Hosted Solutions, noted that Go Daddy's migration to Windows Server 2003 follows announcements of expanded relationships between Microsoft and several other major hosters,

In other words, IIS has convinced Go Daddy executives thanks to a whole Marketing Departament for Hosted Solutions. Meanwhile, many other sites are using Apache just because they like it, not because a Marketing departament is trying to convince their executives.

People should know their shit, if they want to talk about it.

The metrics from Netcraft are hard to read with respect to OS.

This article isn't anyway. This group has been paid by M$ to do "objective" research many times in the past and they never come out showing M$ on the losing side of those "objective tests." One such propaganda device was M$ using the story of a company "Envirotactics" in New Jersey moving from Linux to M$'s server platform after the "Blaster Virus" brought their network down and cost them $5,000 to $10,000 daily during the outage, and the general headaches it caused. Ironically, that is impossible as the Blaster Virus/Worm is and was an IE/Explorer security hazard, something not even present on a Linux system without emulation - and certainly not "critical to the stability of the OS" as (Internet)Explorer is to Windows. Funny enough, NetCraft shows their web server to be an HPUX (HP's Unix) software base, not Windows and IIS. M$ Propaganda/Article Site: http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/case-studie s/CaseStudy.aspx?CaseStudyID=15438 NetCraft result: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=http%3A%2F%2Fw ww.envirotactics.com%2F&position=limited&lookup=Wa it..

Note: Uptime - the time since last reboot is explained in the FAQ Time in Days
Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest
Windows Server 2003 253 189.02 29.22
90-day Moving average 721 129.46 67.22

Source http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=microsoft .com

Max 189.02 days. Any more Questions?

Curiously, Spanked by SCO listed as Linux. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https://w ww.sco.com

304 days currently

Note: Uptime - the time since last reboot is explained in the FAQ Time in Days
Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest
Windows Server 2003 253 189.02 29.22
90-day Moving average 721 129.46 67.22

Source http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=microsoft .com

Max 189.02 days. Any more Questions?

Curiously, Spanked by SCO listed as Linux. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=https://w ww.sco.com

304 days currently

They can read BSD though...

Go to Netcraft's longest uptime stats and have a look - BSD and 4 Windows boxes.

Beats me why they can't detect when a machine rebooted and reset a counter that they keep. then, as long as they check a site at least once every 49.7 days, they'll have an accurate idea of how long its been up.

Come on Netcraft, the entire computing community needs to know objective data on which OS is more stable so we can stop the stupid "Linux is teh l33t so it is better than that toy OS that BSODs daily" comments and know for sure. :-)

See for yourself:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.micro soft.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.linux .com