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Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged
kolchak writes "An article in The Age has an interesting analysis of the Netcraft Web Server Usage Reports. According to Port80 Software, Netcraft's surveys are biased towards domain name parkers and very small web sites, not taking into account how popular a site may be - there's some interesting results in the competing Port80 survey." However, it should be pointed out that Port80 "develops software products to enhance the security, performance and user experience of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server."
If you do a header check on a site you get this notice at the bottom:
"No matter what the above results show, this company may be running Microsoft IIS and protecting its Web server identity with ServerMask."
ServerMask must be the paperbag for ugly IIS servers or corporations who don't want to admit they run IIS
So.... If you are running MS IIS your best security measure is to pretend to be running Apache?
Errrrr.... Just run Apache?
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
So.... If you are running MS IIS your best security measure is to pretend to be running Apache?
No. It's to wave your hands and intone "These are not the servers you're looking for."
It requires the Obi Wan Server Mask, however.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I put in my apache/linux server and it said it was running IIS 5.0
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
maybe its because Apache is seriously outdated technology that still uses unbuffered pointers and old static calls to libraries?
I mean, give me a break! Stop trying to use 70's technology for problems in the 21st century
and what would that one line be?I want my $50 worth on my apache server,lol
I could not help but notice that Google, Yahoo, and Slashdot are omitted from their "top 1000" list. Yet rumors persist that these three web sites get a fair amount of traffic.
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we live in an era where you can market shades to a blind man, and thats what these folks are doing. leave them alone to make innovative products like ServerMask.
Port80Software has been slashdotted. As of 23:41 MTN Standardtime Nov 26th, 2003.. their box is completely down.
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Wonder what they're running
Their wonderful IIS sure didn't stand up well to a Slashdotting.
Remind me again why I don't switch from Apache?
The site is Slashdotted (tm).
Good job Port80!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
* 70% of statistical survey are sponsored by corporations.
* 89% of statistical survey are lies to serve a purpose.
* People lie 65% the time.
* 63% of people lie for financial gains.
* Microsoft is 10% evil.
* I lie 16.66% of the time.
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One is born into aristocracy, but mediocrity can only be achieved through hard work.
If you have a website and you're not doing these things, then you're not using current best practices. I suggest that everybody upgrade to these universal web standards as soon as they can.
Of course, for intranets, you would probably want an Obi LAN Server Mask ;)
Eat the rich.
"Well, since they are so closely tied to microsoft, looks like they have a BIT of a bias..."
Well, of course they're claiming that Netcraft is biased as they survey all webservers they can find. Port 80's idea of an 'unbiased' survey appears to be more in the line of '100% of all IIS sites run IIS which proves IIS is the most commonly used webserver'.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Netcraft is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Netcraft community when IDC confirmed that Netcraft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all surveys. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Netcraft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Netcraft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent net survey comprehensive test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Netcraft's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Netcraft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Netcraft because Netcraft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Netcraft. As many of us are already aware, Netcraft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Web Server Survey Netcraft is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Web Server Survey developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netcraft is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netcraft Admin leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Netcraft SSL Server Survey. How many users of Security Testing are there? Let's see. The number of Netcraft SSL Server Survey versus Security Testing posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Security Testing. Find that site Netcraft posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Security Testing posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Find that site Netcraft. A recent article put What's that site running Netcraft at about 80 percent of the Netcraft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netcraft users. This is consistent with the number of Netcraft Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Security Testing, abysmal sales and so on, Web Server Survey is going out of business and will probably be taken over by Netcraft who sell another troubled net survey. Now Netcraft is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Netcraft has steadily declined in market share. Netcraft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Netcraft is to survive at all it will be among net survey dilettante dabblers. Netcraft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Netcraft is dead.
Fact: Netcraft is dying
i tried their header check for www.apache.org [link is here]
Port80 returned this result:
"We detect that www.apache.org is running Apache/2.0.48-dev (Unix)."
But further down the page is this gem:
"No matter what the above results show, this company may be running Microsoft IIS and protecting its Web server identity with ServerMask."
WTF?!
Yet Socrates himself is particularly missed.
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
So typical of "open sores" zealots...
"EXPERTS CONFIRM: CONFIGURING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS 300% MORE DIFFICULT THAN ORIGINALLY CLAIMED"