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March Netcraft survey

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surveying-the-web dept.

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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  1. hacking parked domains. by Transient0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting.
    If the parked domains can be hacked and defaced so easily, one has to wonder just how secure the rest of their system is, which is responsible not just for domain name serving, but must handle massive credit card traffic.

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  2. Trends by Mattygfunk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's interesting to see the trend occurring in the articles charts. It looks to me as if the trend has Apache leveling out and then dropping recently, and IIS use jumping hugely this year. Even accounting for register.com I see MS catching up strongly.

  3. Re:Apache 2.0 by tshak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We (being a primarly MS house) got so fed up with this IIS (4.0) box that we actually put Apache for Windows on it. The main issue was dynamic scripting for site creation. A Perl script written in less then an hour (with minimal Perl experience then that, and NO experience with httpd.conf) was much more efficient then a huge VBScript (written over a few days) that accessed the IIS Metabase. However, with IIS 6.0 all site configuration and creation can be done by simply interfacing with an XML file.

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  4. Speaking of NetCraft... by Craig+Ringer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know MS/UniSys's new anti-UNIX site www.wehavethewayout.com? Well take a look at what NetCraft reports</a>
    - and compare to the results of a<br>
    lynx -head http://www.wehavethewayout.com<br>
    command. Interesting. Has MS fiddled the server, and NetCraft is pulling some tricks to get the truth, or is NetCraft pulling a "funny" one?

  5. Re:Server share data for working sites by Perdo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That begs the question.. 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? Applications besides passport, that is...

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  6. Uptime & MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know that this is a well known fact among most /. readers, but no one else commented on the lack of M$ II$ servers on the 'Sites with longest running systems by average uptime' page. I think that should have been the lead 'comment' appearing on the front of /. instead of just announcing the survey results. something like 'M$ cant keep it UP!'