Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache?

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Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 4, 2014 @06:02AM from the netcraft-hints-at-it dept.

First time accepted submitter jcdr writes "February's 2014 Web Server Survey by Netcraft shows a massive increase [in the share of] Microsoft's web server since 2013. Microsoft's market share is now only 5.4 percentage points lower than Apache's, which is the closest it has ever been. If recent trends continue, Microsoft could overtake Apache within the next few months, ending Apache's 17+ year reign as the most common web server."

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why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-04 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

With so many botnets taking over IIS, it seems only fair.
1. Re: why not? by tripleevenfall · 2014-02-04 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Next: Paying consumers to use Surface instead of iPad as their go-to breakdancing training device.
2. Re: why not? by fahrbot-bot · 2014-02-04 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  IIS appears to be hosting a lot of dead sites
  Which is good news for the IIS performance metrics MS will be releasing... :-)
  
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3. Re:why not? by alexhs · 2014-02-04 07:17 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Rubbish. I get that it's supposed to be humorous but usually one would base humor on some kernel of fact and there is none in your post.
  Isn't ntoskrnl.exe working for you ?
  
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4. Re: why not? by Giblet535 · 2014-02-04 07:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "Most of us in IT" probably doesn't mean what I think you think it means. Most **employed** IT folks want 100% uptime, or as close to it as possible. They like good performance too. With Apache or nginx, to run insanely fast for a couple of years at a time is normal. Windows can't run a month w/o needing a reboot, and IIS is slower than the Ancient Elders of the Molasses Tribe copulate in February.
5. Re: why not? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-04 10:11 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  IIS, Where bad sites go to die.
  How's that for a catchy marketing slogan ?
6. Re:why not? by jbo5112 · 2014-02-04 10:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The reason for knee jerk reactions is probably because the article actually shows no notable uptick in Microsoft's market share of active sites. It's just a sensationalist summary of some poorly analyzed data. For doing actual web serving (not just parked domain serving), they've fallen to 3rd, being beaten by both Apache and nginx. According to the numbers, 93.0% of Microsoft's sites are inactive, and they are leveraging 86.1% of the growth in inactive sites. Microsoft is now the leading web server for inactive sites. In other words, IIS does nothing better than the competition
Re:I'm switching to IIS! by tripleevenfall · 2014-02-04 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny

The MS shills are out in force posting as AC, you mean?
NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2014-02-04 06:16 · Score: 2, Funny

NETCRAFT IS DEAD!

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1. Re:NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-04 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Natalie Portman's agent just woke up in a cold sweat in fear that she is no longer held dear by ./ers
  But thankfully this post was made, so Natalie Portman's agent can roll over and go back to sleep.
  Just not with Natalie Portman.
  Because I'm doing that right now.
  Giggety.
Re:It was bound to happen by geminidomino · 2014-02-04 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny

IIS also is hardly the crippled pile of steaming crap which it used to be.
This is very true. It's made a lot of progress in the past few years, and is now an almost unrecognizable, completely new pile of steaming crap.
Re:Very different when ... by tgd · 2014-02-04 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny

It also looks very different if you sort them by name:
Apache
Google
Microsoft
nginx
Oblig by Ubi_NL · 2014-02-04 06:38 · Score: 4, Funny

At the time Elvis Presley died in 1977, he had 150 impersonators in the US. Now, according to calculations I spotted in a Sunday newspaper colour supplement recently, there are 85,000. Intriguingly, that means one in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator. More disturbingly, if Elvis impersonators continue multiplying at the same rate, they will account for a third of the worldâ(TM)s population by 2019.
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/...

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The report from Netcraft: by snarfies · 2014-02-04 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Apache is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Apache community when IDC confirmed that Apache market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apachefaces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Apache because Apache is dying. Things are looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that Apache has steadily declined in market share. Apache is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it will be among web server dilettante dabblers. Apache continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Apache from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is dead.
Fact: Apache is dying
Re:Very different when ... by nitehawk214 · 2014-02-04 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Much more different if you sort the words by letter.
aacehp
eggloo
cfimoorst
inngx

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Re:I'm switching to IIS! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-04 08:34 · Score: 4, Funny

You lot remind me of my dad. All he listens to is Pink Floyd and other hippie music, he's convinced any music after 1980 is shit, so he doesn't even listen to any of it.
You should listen to your dad.
Re:IIS better in almost every way. by Giblet535 · 2014-02-04 08:42 · Score: 3, Funny

IIS is MUCH easier to configure under Linux. Infinitely so.
IIS is Isis's sis by smittyoneeach · 2014-02-04 10:42 · Score: 3, Funny

IIS is Isis's sis
That Apache had to save
From her hirsute marital bliss
With abundant
Burma Shave

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