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

According to Netcraft, they have a whopping 4 days since last reboot: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.yanke egroup.com/ They also go with the bulletproof reliability of MS IIs

They are going to try to make sites like Wikipedia hard to use, that's the point. Big publishers like the NYT probably don't like the fact that more people visit Wikipedia than them by a large margin. The old TV and radio empire is striking back. They can't compete so they are going to make laws to protect themselves. Netcraft Site Ranking, today wikipedia is 28th and they NYT is 57th. Between my local paper, BBC, Google News and Wikipedia, I don't need Fox, CNN, M$NBC, CBS, ABC and their ilk. Well, those old companies do find daily rotten fillers.

Say no to this nonsense.

I was surprised to see the Powered by Sun, too. Especially since Netcraft reports all ebay machines running MS Windows Server. Look here.

They run mostly Windows 2000.

Netcraft

Especially because they are both under the same ownership now.

My web host, pair Networks, is listed on Netcraft as being fairly reliable, #14 out of all hosting providers as of the time I post this.

A real nerd would have pluged the domain into netcraft. y2m.com is on a completly diffrent netblock then e-xpedient.com.

A real nerd would have pluged the domain into netcraft. y2m.com is on a completly diffrent netblock then e-xpedient.com.

Netcraft confirms it. No, really.

Yes.

As for the stability of your linux box, who the hell cares? Its one random box with anecdotal stability metrics. I can find plenty of counter examples of linux boxes crashing due to badly written drivers, userland software, pieces of the kernel, etc.

I run a Linux web server and it crashes about every 60 days or so. If you look at netcraft's uptime reports you'll see that Linux isn't that hot. Just becuase a desktop linux box (that might be rebooted every night? every week?) stays up, doesn't mean that Linux is super-reliable.

Even slashdot's average uptime is 137 days, running very little apart from a perl interpreter and apache.

Only idiots who waste their lives gaming Slashdot's moderation system care about mod points. Go fuck yourself, John Marriot, aka Ackbar the bartender.

Well, well, well. It looks like you have changed your robots.txt to exclude searches from archive.org and google. That's too bad, I kind of liked looking at you exhort yourself to mod twitter down.

No big deal, any day's page shows how a pathetic and mean spirited loser spends his time. Mod up, Mod down! LOL, what a waste.

I wonder when you are going to be bright enough to change your site registration so you can tell would be employers you grew up and are ashamed of being such a complete asshole for so long. You do realize that site, which constitutes unlawful harassment, makes you the last person anyone would want to hire, don't you? Nah, you'll never get it. Go ahead and play your pathetic little games.

Only idiots who waste their lives gaming Slashdot's moderation system care about mod points. Go fuck yourself, John Marriot, aka Ackbar the bartender.

Well, well, well. It looks like you have changed your robots.txt to exclude searches from archive.org and google. That's too bad, I kind of liked looking at you exhort yourself to mod twitter down.

No big deal, any day's page shows how a pathetic and mean spirited loser spends his time. Mod up, Mod down! LOL, what a waste.

I wonder when you are going to be bright enough to change your site registration so you can tell would be employers you grew up and are ashamed of being such a complete asshole for so long. You do realize that site, which constitutes unlawful harassment, makes you the last person anyone would want to hire, don't you? Nah, you'll never get it. Go ahead and play your pathetic little games.

Surely, Google isn't the only one to take advantage of cheap hardware? According to Netcraft the internet doubled in size in the last three years, increasing by 3.1 million new hostnames in April 2006 alone.

Blue Security Blog

Netcraft Article on DDoS

My original article on the attack 4/1/06

The DDoS started with invalid PHP requests. I think the spammer is using a combination of methods to disable Blue Security now, but that's just an assumption. The question is, how long are spammers going to focus their efforts on the counter attack? Using their resources to attack Blue Security means less resources to send profitable spam. The spammer wants me to unregister from Blue Security's site, but at the same time, disabled it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to cave in to extortion. Right now I'm happy to have Gmail intercepting spam so others don't have to deal with it. I guess you can say I and the rest of the Blue Security community are drawing fire for the rest of ya'll.

...A blog entry about Linux being too hard to use?

I love the irony that the author is complaining that Linux and OSS are too hard to use.

Surprise, Slashdot is mainstream press. Slashdot is the 64th most visited site on the net. That's right behind the New York Times, which is 56th and more read than the Drudge Report, 75th. Only BBC, CNN, Google, Yahoo and MSNBC are more read news sources. Neither CBS nor ABC news make the top 100.

The majority of server side development is done in Java.

I think you're living in a corporate dreamworld. When I look at hosting providers, I find that there are 10x as many PHP providers than Java hosting providers, and having installed both of them myself, it's not hard to see why. Surveys (eg Netcraft) also suggest that ASP.NET has already overtaken JSP and servlet hosting in 2004. PHP and ASP hosting are so easy to set up and get started with that it's the obvious first choice for anybody needed to do a little bit of server-side programming. In terms of applications, on Freshmeat, there are more than 5x as many CMS's listed that are written in PHP than in Java. And, perhaps most importantly, PHP seems to be more widely used for people trying new ideas on the web, including many Web 2.0 applications.

Java clearly has a good chunk of the high end of server-side development: banks and corporations use it a lot, and it will stay entrenched there for another decade or two. But that's a small part of overall server-side development. Most server-side development is probably developing small scripts, putting together a few existing components, or small customizations of CMSs.

Like the article mentioned, it's probably got something to do with mod_ssl being included as standard in Apache 2.0. Maybe it's just that those running websites these days are more paranoid than their 'forefathers'? Afterall, generally, Apache use has fallen recently.

Netcraft has been tracking some of World of Warcraft's recent network problems, and has a performance chart that shows the recent problems.

Netcraft has been tracking some of World of Warcraft's recent network problems, and has a performance chart that shows the recent problems.

Wouldn't a handkerchief full of snot (and viruses..) be a more appropriate object?

... or if you think the handkerchief is not heavy enough for the metaphor, try a rotting pig head [sorry, couldn't find an appropriately disgusting image] instead!

This being cleared up, now lets get on to the subject:

While it is physically true that the heavier object hits the moon first, this doesn't imply superiority. Think of it as the pig head (or hammer) crashing more quickly than the feather. Oh, and, despite recent small losses, feathers still outnumber pig heads by more than a factor of 2. So there!

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites

Google is #1
Yahoo is #2
MySpace is #83

And you are an anonymous idiot

Yup.
Digg.com: Rank 1150.
slashdot.org: Rank 62.

Yup.
Digg.com: Rank 1150.
slashdot.org: Rank 62.

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We all know that all the vast majority of high performing websites run Apache on a free unix-like O/S.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/performance.html
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Just out of idle curiosity I looked at the uptimes of the #1 linux site on that list, and the #1 windows one.

Guess which was longer...
In fact, guess which had a reboot only 2 days ago...

Yes, yes, fish/barrel/shotgun.

FatPhil

If you clicked on the link, they already attempt to do this via their "Active Sites" which shows Microsoft with a 0.92% gain over the same period. You can read more about how they determine an active site here:

http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200007.html#activ e

Netcraft's job is to be the foremost provider of information about what's running the Internet. Anyone who takes the time to actually read what the numbers say will realize that what Netcraft paints as a huge shift is actually a fairly insignificant change. How many servers does it actually take to run all those parked domain names with almost the exact same content? If you look at the data provided on the same page about active sites, you'll see that Apache only dropped 2.32%, while Microsoft gained only 0.92%. Frontloading articles with dubious data while hiding the relevant numbers deep in their charts is extremely misleading and only serves to tarnish Netcraft's reputation. Netcraft's own report states that registrars have a disproportionate influence in market share numbers measured in this way, so what exactly is the value of the data other than to mislead?

Is BSD really dying?

Seriously - is this worth Bruce wasting his time on?

We all know that all the vast majority of high performing websites run Apache on a free unix-like O/S.

Who cares if Microsoft can claim an extra 5%? Do such stats ever influence companies choosing a platform?

• Anti-Slash's Owner.
• One of his other sites.

• I can't believe someone would register a hate site in his own name. What a dumb ass.

No, bitch, it's MySpace, says Murdoch.

Ha, ha, ha, says Mr. Gates.

And so it goes on in the database nation. It's not yours.

Really, they are making money off the inadequate state of networking and software in the English speaking world. In a better world, you could set up your space in your house. Your computer would be running free software, which does not get burnt for sharing, and your bandwith would not be artificially crimped. I'll bet that you don't see this kind of service arising in places with good bandwith and free software adoption.

Usually, I like to point out that many very mainstream, popular corporate website runs on Linux, or else on commercial Unix.

But, in this case, I think I can proudly say, Myspace is running Windows.

Myspace on netcraft

I bet many FS/OSS friendly organizations would offer server space to host the OpenBSD project's content, cvs, etc.

Or already do?

If the project maintainers can't afford to keep working on it I'm sure other people would jump at the opportunity.

Why wait, if they're qualified? (I'm not qualified)

But I don't see how anyone outside the OpenBSD community should feel obligated to contribute cash. Its not like the IP is in danger yet.

I don't see it as a question of obligation, more one of enlightened self interest. The IP is non existant in any sort of "property" sense. Maybe you should read the license. The cohesion of the team who has coalesced around it and put out software that was so good as to be incorporated into so many things you most likely interact with on a daily basis is what's in danger.

Here is what Phil Scott (who the hell is he) had to say:

Well, according to Netcraft, apache is running 68% of websites, with IIS being used heavily to park domains. I know for a fact that a number of large e-commerce sites are using apache for their stuff. I have no idea who Phil Scott is, and I wonder what use a survey of fortune 1000 websites are, as many of them aren't heavily used dynamic sites.

IIS is by far the minority web server of choice, yet most of the exploits are for it, not Apache.

Oh well, then your classes must be very enlightening. Until your "students" get home and try to do something with the application you just "taught" them how to use.

That's why me and the other two teachers provide step by step slides. Even an AC bartender who runs a hate site can get things done that way. See for yourself. Sorry, Ackbar, that we don't have any instructions to help you migrate from your mighty leet G5. F the haters, baby.

I feel sorry for your city.

CentOS is an operating system. It is probably installed on the computer that runs your website.

We hope you are happy with it, since we produced it for free and you are able to use it without paying us ... and are even threatening to have us arrested for providing to you free of charge.

Please contact someone who does IT for you and show them the page so that they can configure your apache webserver correctly.

Yeah, nice attitude. Don't explain anything, lots of digs (we hope you are happy with it, I feel sorry for your city), and a unworkable suggestion to contact "someone who does IT for you". It's clear from Jerry's first email that he has no idea about this stuff, otherwise he wouldn't be firing off threats to CentOS. It would have been better to look up the dudes ISP like he did in the final email. But even that has a smarter than thou tone about it

Mr. Taylor,

Even though I have repeatedly asked you to contact your service provider or your network administrator, you have persisted to instead harass me. I have repeatedly offered to help you fix your issue, if you would just provide me with information. You have chosen neither provide me with information or contact your hosting provider ... so I decided to see if I could find some of the information myself.

harass me? WTF. And as I said, it's clear from very early on that Jerry has no clue what he's doing. Complaining he hasn't provided technical information is pointless if he can't understand the questions.

I found the website that you are having problems with by looking at http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/ and I saw an e-mail address of cityoftuttle.org ... so I went to www.cityoftuttle.org and I see the problem.

As I tried to explain to you before, that page is displayed when the webserver in question is not properly configured.

The IP address that is returned from a name lookup of www.cityoftuttle.org is 65.77.67.7. That is the IP address of your server.

Doing more research, I have found that the site in question is hosted by Vidia Communications. If you look at this page

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.vidi acom.com

you will plainly see that Vidia Communications uses CentOS as the operating system for their server.

Well I know how to find out who hosts a website too, but someone like Jerry doesn't. Nice use of plainly though.

So, though I have told you again and again that you need to contact your service provider and tell them of your problem, you obviously would rather threaten me and my group.

Welcome to the world of work. Customers, particularly clueless ones, do tend to threaten you when stuff doesn't work if you reply sarcastically when they send you angry emails.

Now, for the last time ... contact your web server provider, Vidia Communications, and tell them that they have a misconfiguration on the server that they are hosting your website on.

While you are at it, why don't you ask Vidia Communications why it is that they choose CentOS to host your webserver on.

Sigh.

So you see Mr. Taylor, you ARE using my free operating system to run your website, you are doing so by choice, it is a configuration error by the person who choose to install the software and if you would have done what I asked you to your website would have been up by now.

Let me conclude by saying that it is very hard for me NOT to send this e-mail and all the other correspondence between you and I to

http://www.tuttletimes.com/

I will not do so

Greg, I am intrigued to know your reaction to Zeus.com's claims (http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/features) that there are more websites running Zeus Web Server than Apache. Not sure where they got their numbers, but Netcraft (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_surv ey.html) definitely does not agree...

A fitting signature for a bartender.

• Ackbar, aka John Marriot, is
• a loser.

Add the Netcraft Toolbar to your browser and not only will you have information on each site you visit on-screen, but it also blocks access to known phishing sites.

They're not losing market share. Market share for IIS has stayed pretty damn stable (about 20%) for the past couple of years - as has Apache, in the high 60's... neither has moved substantially for ages.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_surve y.html

It's a fair assumption. Microsoft have been playing this game for quite a long time now. Look, for example, at Netcraft's April 2002 survey. This is about as close as Microsoft ever got to Apache in market share. Consider the following quotation from that page.

Some of the big moves are because Microsoft has been able to identify people who control very large numbers of sites, are not bound tightly to a particular technology, and persuade them to switch to Microsoft servers. The leading domain registrars, Verisign and register.com, are prime examples of this.

"Per$uade", or "purse-swayed", I'm sure.

Attempts to purchase survey results like this seem a little desparate to me, given the long term trend. Still, you can get an idea of the effect Microsoft is purchasing by looking at the January 2006 survey, where Apache lost nearly a million sites worth of share to the "other" category thanks to a bit of tweaking by GoDaddy. See that page for more detail.

It's a fair assumption. Microsoft have been playing this game for quite a long time now. Look, for example, at Netcraft's April 2002 survey. This is about as close as Microsoft ever got to Apache in market share. Consider the following quotation from that page.

Some of the big moves are because Microsoft has been able to identify people who control very large numbers of sites, are not bound tightly to a particular technology, and persuade them to switch to Microsoft servers. The leading domain registrars, Verisign and register.com, are prime examples of this.

"Per$uade", or "purse-swayed", I'm sure.

Attempts to purchase survey results like this seem a little desparate to me, given the long term trend. Still, you can get an idea of the effect Microsoft is purchasing by looking at the January 2006 survey, where Apache lost nearly a million sites worth of share to the "other" category thanks to a bit of tweaking by GoDaddy. See that page for more detail.

As soon as they're signed up and migrated, that customer service will vanish away like early morning mist ... they're simply not worth that much to Microsoft, except as a press release and a jump in the Netcraft figures.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/03/go_da ddy_2005_super_bowl_ad_followed_by_huge_gains.html - GoDaddy are currently the world's largest hosting operation, with over 5.5 million hostnames.

if you check out netcraft, Microsoft products seem to place a far third behind commercial Unixes and Linux.

I'm not sure Netcraft tells the whole story. After all, Netcraft surveys webservers. Whether that is a true reflection of Microsoft's share of the overall business server market is debatable at best.

That said, I agree with your assertion that Microsoft has failed to effectively leverage its desktop dominance in the server market. Throwing money at it and making big announcements doesn't mean squat. Deliver the goods and people will believe you, MS. Until then, it's just hot air.

As previous posters have noted, these attacks have become more frequent in recent months, prompting an advisory from US-CERT (PDF) in December. It's a hot topic on several security lists, and a special focus of SecuriTeam blogger Gadi Evron.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by 21 Secunia advisories some of which are rated Highly critical.