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."

Comments

wow...

[oo7tushar]

this is after April F00ls day so it must be serious...w0w, does this mean that monkeys now rule the Universe? or at least Verisign?

Why? In *****s name WHY?

[wzzrd]

I seriously don't understand this. Why would ANYONE (and I mean ANYONE) even consider migrating his webservices to IIS? IMHO you must either be blind, deaf and mute or REALLY very incredibly unbelievably stupid!

I'm aware of the flame I am posting here, but be honest: do YOU understand this? I would have thought enough proof had been delivered the past few months (read: years) about the insecurity (and blunt evilness, really) of IIS. For heavens sake, if insecurity is proven over and over and over why make the step TO IIS instead of FROM IIS (to something else, ANYTHING else).

Apache runs under windows if you really must use that OS, Apache isn't THAT hard to set up and most important of all: Apache isn't THAT insecure. Gimme a -zillion for this flame, come on, I know what I know, I know a webserver running IIS belonging to a friend of mine got hacked last week. I know mine got hacked once (before I put on Apache) and I know many, many, MANY more IIS servers will get hacked until admin's turn into roots (or at least surf by www.apache.org).

Do yourself a favor: think twice about IIS...

Re:They switch, regardless of the defacing risk

[Cally]

Lemmings is right. This trend to IIS from Apache started showing up right about the time Code Red and Nimda made it clear what a joke IIS is as a web server (as a paperweight, the box & CDs work great!) I can only conclude that pointy-haired bosses all over the world have simultaenously decided that if the thing's been trashed by three successive waves of malware, that all the bugs have been ironed out of the codebase by now. In other words, management are mindless cretins who deserve nothing but poking with sharp sticks, ridicule, and high-velocity custard pies.