March Netcraft survey

awptic writes "The March Netcraft survey is out. Among the changes is a 4% increase in the number of websites running IIS, primarily due, however, to register.com's domain name parking service switching to mostly IIS servers, which account for over 2 million of the 38 million sites surveyed. Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced shortly thereafter."

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Not just register.com

[Snowfox]

Not just register.com -- NetSol also moved much of its operations from UNIX systems to Windows systems, if you didn't have enough reason to question the sanity of NetSol already...

Re:hacking parked domains.

[ThatComputerGuy]

According to the article, these tasks were outsourced... not good, but hopefully the same policy isn't taken with more sensitive tasks.

Hacked Servers Outsourced to Interland

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the Security Focus article the affected parking servers had been outsourced to Interland. Not really surprising, since Interland has left their servers vulnerable to various vulnerabilities for months at times.

Server share data for working sites

[rkgmd]

This data for *active* web servers (about 6 million total) seems to give a different picture---while apache lost 0.16% and IIS gained 0.40%, long-term (over the last year) apache grew, while IIS fell. Also, extrapolated future failure and growth rates seems to indicate that one is better off betting on apache than on IIS.

Re:Server share data for working sites

[johnnyb]

If people choose apache because they are smart, and choose IIS because they are sheep, why do people choose Netscape, Zeus, Webstar and Website? What do those people know that we don't or are those people stuck by vendor lock-in? Are there certain webserving applications that are better suited to something besides Apache?

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I think the point is, people who use IIS are sheep. There are many good webservers out there, Apache being an excellent example. For a quick list of features:

1) Apache - excellent security, modularity, and customizability

2) Netscape - excellent scalability (Apache might win here, though, when it hits 2.0)

3) Zeus - very, very fast

I don't know about the others. Basically, a lot of people have put out good webservers. Microsoft just isn't one of them.

VeriSign != Register.com

[pclinger]

The story points out that Register.com switched to IIS. And then the idiot who submitted the story points to an article "Hackers Deface Thousands Of Domains Parked At Verisign" (http://online.securityfocus.com/news/357) about domains getting hacked from Verisign, trying to make some connection there. NetSol is now known as Verisign. Register.com is not Verisign. They are two separate companies. Now, lets review:

Register.com switches to IIS
Verisign domains get hacked

Connection? None. So don't post anything that tries to make that connection.

Re:VeriSign != Register.com

[T-Punkt]

Read the Netcraft survey as well---the summary at /. ist not correct, Register.com and Network Solution switched to IIS.

Lemmingtons: mothed inappropriate

[leonbrooks]

All of [a] sudden a pictures of lemmings jumping off a cliff materialized in front of me.

Lemmings don't actually do that. Perhaps a flock of moths orbiting a bonfire... orbiting... orbiting... spiralling in... `we see the light, and that light is Microsoft'

FWIW, piranha don't get vicious until they're thoroughly starved, and there are several species of vegetarian Piranha.

Re:Why? In *****s name WHY?

[rseuhs]

While Microsoft is good at bribing big hosting sites to tweak statistics, the reality looks a bit different, IIS marketshare declined significantly since the Code-Red attacks:

look for yourself

Nice is Japan and Germany

People who actually have to pay for IIS *are* switching to Apache, and only very few new companies start with IIS.

Gotta check those facts

[xrayspx]

Not Register.com, Verisign/NetSol. The domains were parked at InterLand.

Granted, I knew all that before I read this article, but hey, the securityfocus article that was linked had all this information, would have been 4 seconds of Journalistic Research.

I'm too ornery in the morning. In any case, really big mass-defacement, really easily accomplished.

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Re:Why? In *****s name WHY?

[Ami Ganguli]

I meant that Nescape & others do better in the weighted results than in the unweighted results. Certainly Apache dominates the market no matter which way you cut it. Even the SSL market, aparently, which wasn't the case a year or two ago.