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[linux-team] April 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:46:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Mike Prettejohn <mhp@netcraft.co.uk>
To: dulaunoy@gher08.phys.ulg.ac.be
Subject: April 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey
The April 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
Five Million Sites Found
The number of web sites found by the survey went past five million
this month. There has been a fivefold increase in the number
of sites since the April survey two years ago, when the one million
site mark was reached.
The Past Two Years
Apache and Microsoft-IIS have dominated web server technology over the
past two years, with Apache's widespread use in the internet industry
itself ensuring that it maintained and extended its lead.
Microsoft-IIS has extended its own position with self-hosted sites in
the same period, and overtaken Netscape as the most commonly used
server for encrypted transactions.
Other changes over the period include the demise of the original
NCSA server to a share of under 1%, the widespread adoption of HTTP/1.1,
the emergence of internet encrypted transactions from a base of around
7,500 sites two years ago, and the rise of Intel powered systems,
running NT, Linux, BSDI and FreeBSD, at the expense of risc-based
systems from Sun and Silicon Graphics.
A key theme has been the continued rise in importance of the hosting
company, with nine out of ten sites hosted externally. There has been
considerable growth in all segments of this market, both with volume
small sites, exemplified by [1]Rapidsite, through to largescale
co-location, typified by [2]Exodus. Several companies, including
Verio and Exodus, now host more than 1% of the world's web sites. Even
so, hosting is a very dynamic market. In the UK, [3]FreeServe,
which started trading last September, this month hosts more sites
[about 1.3% of the web] than [4]Demon Internet which pioneered
dial-up internet access in the UK in 1992.
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer April 1999 Percent Change
Apache 2832119 56.19 1.30
Microsoft 1169415 23.20 -0.41
Netscape 341876 6.78 0.21
O'Reilly 84619 1.68 -0.23
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Server April 1999 Percent Change
Apache 2832119 56.19 1.30
Microsoft-IIS 1164132 23.09 -0.40
Netscape-Enterprise 253660 5.03 0.34
Rapidsite 94808 1.88 -0.06
WebSitePro 79615 1.58 -0.21
thttpd 66211 1.31 -0.15
Stronghold 64491 1.28 -0.05
WebSTAR 53985 1.07 -0.10
Zeus 51969 1.03 0.07
NCSA 40823 0.81 -0.10
References
1. http://www.rapidsite.net/
2. http://www.exodus.net/
3. http://www.freeserve.co.uk/
4. http://www.demon.net/
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