Apache Jumps In Market Share

mshiltonj writes "In case no one has noticed, the lastest Netcraft web server survey showed a marked shift in market share in just one month. Apache gained 2.63% and IIS fell 2.06%. However, the previous month showed an even larger change in Microsoft's favor, so Apache is (quickly) making up for lost ground, as discussed before. Was this turnaround due to the release of Apache 2.0? Sadly, in the last 12 months, Apache's market share has noticeably eroded, while IIS has gradually gained ground."

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That's Nimda for you...

[canthusus]

...which is why I use TinyWeb Does very little - but does it securely.

Turnaround not due to Apache 2.0

[Cycon]

Apache gained 2.63% and IIS fell 2.06%. However, the previous month showed an even larger change in Microsoft's favor, so Apache is (quickly) making up for lost ground, as discussed before. Was this turnaround due to the release of Apache 2.0?

According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey page, the drop in IIS over the past month was due to a change in Homestead.com's policies:

Microsoft drop back a couple of percentage points this month, primarily attributable to the reaping of around a million expired sites at homestead.com. Homestead used to offer limited free hosting supported by advertising, but has revised its business model. As of April 15th has announced that it is migrating to a traditional paid-for services model.

--Cycon

Re:Apache 2.0 lack of modules

[Anonymous Coward]

PHP 4.2.1 came out the other day with improved Apache 2 support. It works pretty well. They say it's not quite ready for primetime, but it's definately there for development.

As for why an IIS admin might consider switching, some tests have shown better speed when using Apache 2.0 on Windows. Sometimes people are forced to use Windows for various reasons. Now they have a production quality Apache they can use on that platform.

Re:Question about IIS

[Billly Gates]

netcraft only measures DNS registered sites so the answer is no. Whats causing the rise in IIS use is microsoft paying off huge webhosting companies like homestead.com and many others to switch. Ask anyone in the webhosting bussiness how many calls from MS salesmen do they get in a week? Ms constantly bugs them and yes even offers to pay for the upgrade costs for all servers! The reason? Marketshare. Webhosting companies have like %40 of DNS registered sites out there. MS knows the suits in the fortune 1,000 only buy whats popular and not whats best. If they see a jump in IIS they will buy it in fear of apache becoming the next netscape or lotus smartsuite.

Its total bs and crazy to even think like this but this is how IT thinks. If you look at netcrafts monthly usage you will see a jump in IIS after some big web hosting company switches to it. Then MS will make one fud report after another about bussiness migration away from expensive unix systems to NT and how its changing the whole world and yada yada yada. However now I believe alot of bussinesses are thinking about switching back to apache due to the huge security holes in IIS. If they use active server pages then I feel real sorry for them. Infact my windows2000 at home was hacked using just a small 56k modem. I believe the hacker used IIS in which I had installed to learn vb active server pages. Absolutely astounding! I checked the logs myself and no this was not a registered website but for my own personal use.