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Nearly 2 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the running-the-numbers dept.

Echo|Fox writes "So much for *BSD is dying. The latest Netcraft survey shows over 2 million active sites, and almost 4 million active hostnames all running on FreeBSD. Combined with the report that 5 of the top 10 hosting companies in terms of reliability were FreeBSD based, it's been a very positive month *BSD wise. Perhaps the most interesting quote from the survey is: 'Indeed it [FreeBSD] is the only other operating system that is gaining, rather than losing share of the active sites found by the Web Server Survey.'"

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  1. Slight error in story posting by Sevn · · Score: 4, Informative

    5 of the top 10 hosting companies in terms of reliability were FreeBSD based

    When in actuality the netcraft article says this:

    "Intriguingly, all of the Top 5 placed sites run the FreeBSD operating system" :)

    Slight difference there.

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  2. Re:Does Mac OS X count? by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Informative

    On Netcraft MacOS X shows up as MacOS X and in the server string it states "Darwin"

    So no, they are not including MacOS X :-)

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