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[linux-team] FW: May 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:45:07 +0100 (BST)
From: (Mike Prettejohn) <mhp@netcraft.co.uk>
To: (Netcraft webserver survey mailing list)
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Subject: May 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey
The May 1999 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
Apache has 3 million sites
This month sees Apache go past the 3 million sites mark. The
widespread deployment of Apache amongst hosting companies and ISPs
ensures that Apache is in a better position to echo the growth of the
web than any other server, and this has been a longterm theme of the
Web Server survey.
At the start of 1998 Apache had only a small share of third party
certified Internet SSL sites. Publicly trusted SSL sites are
individually certified by a third party certificate authority such as
[14]Thawte or [15]Verisign. The desire for security means that SSL
sites are relatively more likely to be run from companies' own
networks than hosted externally. The influence of the ISP and large
scale hoster is therefore considerably reduced for SSL sites, and the
much smaller number of Apache SSL sites reflected this, with the
established reasoning being that the server was very much an internet
industry tool, used by technically sophisticated specialists, rather
than end user companies.
However, Apache is now the fastest growing server in our SSL Server
Survey. Clearly something has happened over the last fifteen months,
which has made the server much more attractive to people wishing to use
encrypted transactions.
* Verisign [16]announced that they were prepared to licence their
certificates to Apache sites. Previously Apache was not an
approved server, though some sites were prepared to run Apache
SSL sites with Verisign certs without approval.
* Red Hat [17]released an Apache server covered by an RSAREF
licence. This made it possible for people in the United States to
use Apache for SSL without infringing the RSA patent, though some US
sites were in any case prepared to run Apache SSL sites without the
benefit of an RSAREF licence, wagering that the likelihood of a
patent infringement suit was low.
* Ralf Engelschall released [18]mod_ssl giving web site
administrators another technical option to consider for Apache
enabled SSL, and this has quickly become popular.
* Apache is still gaining share with large companies, as wider
publicity makes corporates more amenable to running the server.
Large companies are more likely to be involved in electronic
commerce and encrypted transactions.
* The increase in ecommerce facilities offered by hosting companies
and ISPs looking for value added services, and the increasing use
of Thawte's wildcard X.509 certificates. ISPs, hosting companies,
and wildcard certificate users are user communities where Apache
features most strongly.
All of which shows that Apache's overwhelming popularity in the
relatively low value high volume hosting market does not necessarily
preclude it from being useful in much lower volume and higher value
applications.
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer May 1999 Percent Change
Apache 3097993 57.22 1.03
Microsoft 1244808 22.99 -0.21
Netscape 356207 6.58 -0.20
O'Reilly 85654 1.58 -0.10
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Server May 1999 Percent Change
Apache 3097993 57.22 1.03
Microsoft-IIS 1239454 22.89 -0.20
Netscape-Enterprise 266449 4.92 -0.11
Rapidsite 99763 1.84 -0.04
WebSitePro 80670 1.49 -0.09
thttpd 70161 1.30 -0.01
Stronghold 67845 1.25 -0.03
Zeus 60520 1.12 0.09
WebSTAR 55695 1.03 -0.04
Netscape-Commerce 40427 0.75 -0.04
References
1. http://www.thawte.com/
2. http://www.verisign.com/
3. http://www.verisign.com/pr/pr_apache.html
4. http://www.redhat.com/
5. http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mod_ssl/
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