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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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