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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com> on 1998/03/03 22:34:24 UTC
March 1998 Netcraft Web Server Survey (fwd)
Numbers look good, but I'm guessing they just found a whack of Apache
servers somewhere. The graphs sure look cool though.
Apache+derivatives is over 1million. Hmm.
http://www.netcraft.co.uk/survey/platform.html claims 50.37% for
Apache+derivaties for March, but I think it hasn't been updated yet even
though it claims to be March. Should be... erm... ~51.4 or something I
think.
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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:12:52 GMT
From: Mike Prettejohn <mh...@netcraft.co.uk>
To: marcs@znep.com
Subject: March 1998 Netcraft Web Server Survey
The March 1998 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
Survey goes over two million sites
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer Mar 98 Percent Change
Apache 975289 46.79 1.07
Microsoft 450974 21.63 -0..17
Netscape 203394 9.76 -0.22
NCSA 69128 3.32 -0.24
O'Reilly 52147 2.50 -0.07
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Server Mar 98 Percent Change
Apache 975289 46.79 1.07
Microsoft-IIS 439748 21.10 -0.09
Netscape-Enterprise 110336 5.29 -0.01
NCSA 69128 3.32 -0.24
RapidSite 48914 2.35 0.04
thttpd 45429 2.18 -0.02
WebSitePro 45069 2.16 -0.03
Stronghold 43730 2.10 -0.12
Netscape-Commerce 39896 1.91 -0.08
WebSTAR 33096 1.59 -0.07
Around the Web
The number of web sites found by the survey exceed two million for the
first time this month. The first survey was run over the last
weekend in July 1995, and received responses from 18957 sites. The
survey went past 100,000 sites in March 1996 and 1,000,000 in
April 1997 Since spring 1996, the survey has usually been the
largest publicly searchable archive of internet web sites.
Top hosting companies merge
ZDNet reports that Hiway Technologies, which owns Rapidsite,
and best.com are about to merge. These companies are little known
outside the hosting industry, but in terms of numbers of sites, are
probably the two largest hosting companies in America. This month's
survey found nearly 49,000 sites at Rapidsite, and 15,000 at
best.com respectively. Additionally, both companies are significant
hosters of SSL sites. The technical ability required this number
of sites is quite considerable, and represents an achievement for
their suppliers, as well as the companies themselves. RapidSite is run
on multiple Silicon Graphics machines and the Apache server, while
best.com is a network of Pentiums running Matt Dillon's purpose
written BESTWWWD web server on FreeBSD.
Heavy traffic at Olympics
IBM ran the Winter Olympics, which has experienced peak traffic
loads in the region of 100,000 hits in a minute, on the IBM-ICS
server. IBM has recently switched www.ibm.com to
Domino-Go-Webserver/4.6 which was also used for the Superbowl.
Virtual redirection
ml.org has an interesting free internet service whereby people can
choose a domain name under home.ml.org which, when accessed, is then
forwarded to a url elsewhere on the internet. So far, over 100,000
people set up hostnames using this redirection service. All domain
names resolve to the same ip address, and the server uses the HTTP/1.1
host header to determine which of the sites it should respond as. To
reduce DNS configuration changes the home.ml.org domain is wildcarded,
so that any hostname chosen will receive a response from the server
either a redirection to a new url, either a default page at
www.home.ml.org or the url where the person's site content resides.
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The full survey is at
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
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Material from the survey may be reproduced providing that Netcraft and
the url http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ are both attributed.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SSL Server Survey - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A commercial SSL server survey is also available from Netcraft,
price pounds 1200 for a monthly updated analysis reflecting the
topology of encrypted transactions electronic commerce on the internet.
Details and sample pageset available at http://www.netcraft.com/ssl/
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Netcraft also does commercial internet research projects. These include
custom cuts on the Web Server Survey data, virtual hosting industry analysis,
corporate use of internet technology and bespoke projects. All of the data
is gathered through network exploration, not teleresearch.
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Re: March 1998 Netcraft Web Server Survey (fwd)
Posted by Manoj Kasichainula <ma...@io.com>.
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 02:34:24PM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote:
> http://www.netcraft.co.uk/survey/platform.html claims 50.37% for
> Apache+derivaties for March, but I think it hasn't been updated yet even
> though it claims to be March. Should be... erm... ~51.4 or something I
> think.
Yup. They've just changed that number to 51.36%
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