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August Netcraft Results - Apache up 6%, MS IIS down 6%

Posted by krow on from the the-see-saw-olympics dept.

An Onimous Cow Herd writes "Augusts Netcraft Web survey results are now out. This month's results show a dramatic upsurge of nearly 6% for Apache and a corresponding drop for MS IIS! At this point, Apache's decline has dramatically reversed, regaining the ground it lost to IIS starting mid-2001 and currently Apache's market share stands the highest since Netscraft started their monthly surveys."

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  1. Read the Fine Print by SQL+Error · · Score: 3, Informative

    From Netcraft's site:

    Around the Net

    Microsoft loses around 6% share this month, as register.com continues to fluctuate between using a Windows and Linux front end, and homestead.com , which originally based its business model on support from advertising, cleared away over a million sites. Homestead recently raised $5M from its investors to assist its transition to a paid for serivces model. To complete a bad news month for Microsoft's share of the survey, Reuters reports that the Federal Trade Commission will investigate the relationship between Verisign and Interland with respect to marketing domain names. The NSI domain parking system hosted at Interland is the other large repository of parked sites on the Microsoft platform. Earlier in the year large numbers of sites were reaped at Namezero, which had a controversial relationship with NSI regarding reselling domain names.

  2. Re:Hard to believe by highcaffeine · · Score: 2, Informative

    Domain name parking.

    It happens every once in a while. Places like Register.com, Verisign, et. al. that put up those "site coming soon," "buy this domain for $x," and other messages switch their web server software every so often. Don't ask me why they do it exactly, but when it happens it can create a very sudden change in the numbers.

    This report, I believe, had a note that one of those domain name parkers switched to Apache from IIS, which probably accounted for at least a noticable chunk of the 6% swing.

  3. Re:Hard to believe by jkramar · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you read the article, one of the first sentences you would read would be:
    Microsoft loses around 6% share this month, as register.com continues to fluctuate between using a Windows and Linux front end, and homestead.com, which originally based its business model on support from advertising, cleared away over a million sites.
    --

    true && more || less
  4. Re:Hard to believe by sab39 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try reading the actual survey. The Ominous Cow Herd and the /. editor that posted this should have done the same thing, and realised that it's not so significant, but that would be asking way too much for /. :)

    What it boils down to is that a couple of mega-hosting-companies that host thousands upon thousands of domains have made changes that have a disproportionate effect due to the sheer number of sites hosted on their systems.

    The survey also shows results for "active domains" which are much more realistic, and while these still show a gain for Apache, it's much more modest and therefore more believable. But it doesn't make for such good headlines...

    Stuart.