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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
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'.
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"