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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. Hits/Server Type by zmalone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be interesting to know what kind of traffic each web server tends to take. It just seems to me that the end user perspective would be important here. If 90% of the machines out there run IIS, but the average person mostly accesses Apache machines, which would you say is the dominant server software?

    Unfortunatly, I cannot think of an easy way to do any such overview.

  2. Re:Hard to believe by DustMagnet · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You are right that "active domains" is a more accurate pictures, but what I found most interesting is that Microsoft actually lost sites under active domains, while Apache picked up almost twice that loss.

    I hate misleading catchy titles too. Slashdot is almost as bad as the tech section on abcnews.com.

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  3. Re:Can't argue with the numbers, but... by Baconator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe that many people on /. look at the Apache numbers as some sort of "is Microsoft dead?" meter.

    Actually, I think of it as more of a "has Microsoft taken over everything in the known universe?" meter... or maybe a "is the idea of Free Software in the business world actually tenable" meter.

    Apache, much like the old BSD TCP/IP, is one of those shining success stories in the Free Software world, so I think it's all right if people cheer when it does well in a fluffy survey with pretty graphs. Of course I guess it would be pretty damn silly to have a Netcraft-style survey of networking protocol suites, but I would still cheer to see that TCP went from 99.87% to 99.88% this month :)