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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)
<webserver-survey@ns0.netcraft.co.uk>
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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