You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Mark J Cox <ma...@awe.com> on 1999/11/30 18:21:58 UTC
November 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:08:56 GMT
From: Mike Prettejohn <mh...@netcraft.com>
To: mark@ukweb.com
Subject: November 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey
The November 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer November 1999 Percent Change
Apache 4847992 54.81 1.14
Microsoft 2145461 24.26 -0.67
Netscape 653800 7.39 -0.34
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Server November 1999 Percent Change
Apache 4847992 54.81 1.14
Microsoft-IIS 2141099 24.21 -0.67
Netscape-Enterprise 597058 6.75 0.22
thttpd 176358 1.99 0.17
Rapidsite 165222 1.87 0.03
Zeus 115307 1.30 0.05
CnG 104979 1.19 -0.34
WebSitePro 89324 1.01 -0.09
Stronghold 77248 0.87 -0.04
WebSTAR 67993 0.77 -0.02
Around the Net
[1]Apache had its best month since the spring, gaining just over one
percentage point of survey share. [2]Microsoft, after its large gain
last month, and [3]Netscape dropped back by a roughly equivalent
measure.
During the month promotion commenced for the second Apache
[4]conference to be run in Florida next March. It is interesting to
see that [5]Sun , traditionally thought of as tightly aligned with
Netscape, is adopting a more encouraging outlook towards Apache and is
a conference sponsor.
Large Scale Hosting
Last month we reported that [6]webjump.com was one of the first large
hosting systems [with well over 300,000 sites] to be deployed on NT.
Several people have since pointed out that Webjump is actually a
hybrid system with static content run from [7]NT and dynamic content
delivered from a [8]conventional Solaris/Apache/perl system.
In the upshot of the publicity of the Webjump system, several
companies changed their DNS configurations to enable Netcraft to
retrieve DNS information for their web hosts and include their sites
in the survey; the largest of these, [9]hypermart.net was too late
for inclusion in the November survey, but is likely to add several
hundred thousand in December. hypermart.net provides free business
site hosting on a Linux/Apache [10]platform.
Intel based systems have done very well in hosting scenarios over the
last two years, and this trend is likely to continue, both as a
platform for the freely available Linux and FreeBSD operating systems
and for Windows 2000 with the new Microsoft operating system now being
heavily promoted as scaling to high availability and high performance
hosting scenarios.
Notable Sites - What do the top .com domains use for encrypted
transactions?
At the start of the month Netscape made the news when it became clear
that retailing icon amazon.com had replaced Netscape with the
Stronghold server on [11]www.amazon.com. Netscape's steadily declining
share of the SSL Server market has been chronicled by the [12]SSL
Survey over the last three years, which has seen strong gains for both
Microsoft and Apache based servers over the same period. Loss of the
amazon.com site, which never upgraded from Netscape-Commerce, has been
taken as an indication that top commerce sites see Netscape as a spent
force.
However, a quick analysis of the commercial domains most active in
using encrypted transactions on the internet shows that Netscape still
enjoys a considerable presence with the large corporate users that it
has always seen as its primary market, and it is often the case that
the most intensive users of a particular technology behave differently
to the userbase as a whole.
The top 10 .com domains with the most distinct certificates found by
the September SSL survey, run 213 Netscape servers [out of a total of
341 sites], against 42 Microsoft [of which 28 are in the microsoft.com
domain], and 24 Apache. Equally notable is their choice of operating
systems, where both NT and Linux, strongly represented in the SSL
Survey as a whole have a relatively small share. Just 57 sites run NT,
with the most common Unix systems according to signatures detected in
the tcp/ip characteristics, being Solaris and AIX. Only one site was
detected as running Linux.
Having three operating systems manufacturers in the top ten domains
obviously helps make the o/s figures anomalous, but even so it is
clear that the commercial Unix vendors do much better with the larger
electronic commerce companies than with the internet economy as a
whole. Equally interesting is the composition of the list; when a
similar "top 10" list was constructed in the spring, it was packed out
with retail brokerages; while these are still very intensive users of
SSL, they have been pushed out of the top 10 by a combination of large
banks and computer vendors catching up in the use of encrypted
transactions.
Top 10 .com domains with most SSL third party certificates
Domain
1. schwab.com
2. ibm.com
3. hp.com
4. microsoft.com
5. photonet.com
6. nationsbankonline.com
7. att.com
8. yahoo.com
9. credit-agricole.fr
10 bankoneonline.com
Job Opportunities at Netcraft
Netcraft is looking for an internet technology [13]analyst.
Details available at http://www.netcraft.com/jobs/writer.html
References
1. http://www.apache.org/
2. http://www.microsoft.com/
3. http://www.netscape.com/
4. http://www.apachecon.com/
5. http://www.sun.com/
6. http://www.webjump.com/
7. http://www.webjump.com/hosting/profile.html
8. http://www.webjump.com/support/info_cgi.html
9. http://www.hypermart.net/
10. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hypermart.net
11. http://www.netcraft.com/sslwhats/?host=www.amazon.com
12. http://www.netcraft.com/ssl/
13. http://www.netcraft.com/jobs/writer.html
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/
- - - - - - - - Commercial Internet Research from Netcraft - - - - - - - - -
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.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - this list - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To unsubscribe from the Netcraft Web Server Survey Announcements list
send the message
unsubscribe webserver-survey
to majordomo@netcraft.com
To resubscribe send the message
subscribe webserver-survey
Mike
--
Mike Prettejohn
mhp@@netcraft.com Phone +44 1225 447500 Fax +44 1225 448600
Netcraft Rockfield House Granville Road Bath BA1 9BQ England