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Apache Now the Leader in SSL Servers?

Posted by Zonk on from the moving-on-up dept.

miller60 writes "Apache has overtaken Microsoft as the leading developer of secure web servers, according to Netcraft's monthly SSL survey. Apache now runs on 44.0% of secure web sites, compared to 43.8% for Microsoft. Apache's recent gains are attributed to the inclusion of mod_ssl in version 2, and strong growth of SSL-enabled sites in non-US markets where Apache has stronger market share."

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  1. Congratulations by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    to a quality open source product! Whatever Apache is doing development and management-wise, don't change a thing!

    1. Re:Congratulations by Homology · · Score: 3, Interesting
      to a quality open source product! Whatever Apache is doing development and management-wise, don't change a thing!

      They rejected many security patches from OpenBSD for httpd 1.3.29, and even before OpenBSD forked httpd 1.3 (the infamous license change) the in-tree diff was over 4000 lines of code.

  2. Shows what I know by Illbay · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I didn't even know that Apache had NOT been the leader in this category.

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    1. Re:Shows what I know by PFI_Optix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm not sure why this was modded redundant. I too am surprised that Apache wasn't the leading secure server. I'd find it interesting to know just how many people didn't realize that MS held as much share in this particular category as they do.

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    2. Re:Shows what I know by DaHat · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I agree... but for a different reason: I'm surprised that this was not mentioned previously by the Microsoft camp in response to the traditional OSS claim of Apache and Linux running more web servers than Windows and IIS.

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  3. false readings by Keruo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Netcraft statistics lie.
    I run several ssl www-servers with linux+apache configuration, and yet they show as windows 2003 on netcraft surveys because eNom reports them that way.
    The true amount of IIS-based ssl servers is much smaller.

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  4. Re:Thought MS was further back. by Thundersnatch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's all about the developers. People use IIS because it serves ASP and more importantly ASP.net. Say what you will about Microsoft, but Visual Stuido is a first-class development environment. Building scalable and functional web applications in ASP.net using the graphical tools in VS is easier than anything I've seen in the LAMP world, with the possible exception of Rails.

    Plus, Microsoft's near-suicidal devotion to backwards compatibility makes heavily mixed ASP/ASP.net sites like CDW reasonably easy, probably easier than mixing different web frameworks on a LAMP or Java platform.