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(Oct 1st, 06:54:40 )
The September 2000 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer August 2000 Percent September 2000 Percent Change
Apache 12222228 61.66 12705194 60.02 -1.64
Microsoft 3890905 19.63 4140977 19.56 -0.07
iPlanet 1431425 7.22 1514106 7.15 -0.07
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Top Servers
Server August 2000 Percent September 2000 Percent Change
Apache 12222228 61.66 12705194 60.02 -1.64
Microsoft-IIS 3888590 19.62 4138551 19.55 -0.07
Netscape-Enterprise 1389991 7.01 1472689 6.96 -0.05
Zeus 396637 2.00 606987 2.87 0.87
WebLogic 484980 2.45 566509 2.68 0.23
Rapidsite 317198 1.60 332246 1.57 -0.03
AOLserver 540 0.00 201471 0.95 0.95
thttpd 222282 1.12 190371 0.90 -0.22
WebSitePro 102185 0.52 103617 0.49 -0.03
WebSTAR 90450 0.46 93185 0.44 -0.02
Active Sites
Developer August 2000 Percent September 2000 Percent Change
Apache 5049948 59.61 5334435 60.31 0.70
Microsoft 2225709 26.27 2363044 26.72 0.45
iPlanet 249275 2.94 256092 2.90 -0.04
Around the Net
For the third month in a row there was strong growth in sites run
using web servers outside of the traditional big three of Apache,
Microsoft, and Netscape. There are now over half a million sites at
[1]NetZero which provides a free .com domain and web hosting service,
based on WebLogic's server. [2]Zeus continued its own strong growth,
and is now running on over 600,000 sites, while [3]mydomain.com has
switched to using AOLserver to provide domain name registration, DNS
management facilities and hosting for around 200,000 domains.
Dedicated Server business growing very quickly
Over the last year the dedicated server business has progressed from
an innovative niche to become the sector that everyone wants to be in.
The combination of good quality networks, efficient and convenient
provisioning, and cheap pricing has proved irresistible to many medium
sized sites that previously hosted their sites on their own networks,
with simple colocation facilities, or on higher end shared hosting
systems. Many of leading companies in this sector are relatively new
and unfamilar names, with the first and second generation companies
such as [4]uu.net, [5]psi.com and [6]exodus.net having missed the
initial surge of interest in the sector.
Leading companies include [7]rackspace.com, [8]Digital Nation, a
Verio subsiduary, [9]Interland, [10]Interliant, [11]DialToneInternet,
[12]CrystalTech, and Dell subsiduary [13]dellhost.com. The typical model
is to offer primarily Intel based hardware running either Red Hat
Linux or Windows 2000, with pricing schemes often starting as low as
$200 per month for a moderate specification machine and low bandwidth.
This is seen as an attractive business model by hosting companies, as
there is limited revenue in shared hosting, while dedicated server
customers may typically generate in the region of $4K-$24K per annum.
Customers gain the control and flexibility of having their own machine,
and the convenience of not needing to deal with hardware purchase,
shipment and upgrades themselves.
Many of the dedicated server companies are showing outstanding growth,
with rackspace.com having gone from 700 to over 2000 machines in a
little over six months, and [14]Interland having over 12,000 Windows
2000 sites just six months after the Windows 2000 launch. DellHost is
also growing quickly, presumably by leveraging its parent company's
customer base. Its [15]customer signup page shows how acceptable Linux
has become, with Red Hat, rather than NT or Windows 2000, the
default install. However, on the sites we find at dellhost.com
Windows 2000 leads Red Hat by 2:1, indicating the nature of Dell's
primary customer base.
Although the dedicated server companies are growing revenue very
quickly, the primary beneficiaries may be their suppliers. Intel based
hardware vendors will make more money by selling multiple machines to
dedicated server companies, while Microsoft benefits strongly from the
greater number of software licences sold.
Sun buys Cobalt
Arguably the company that has gained most from the trend to dedicated
servers is [16]Cobalt. Symmetrically, Sun, whose larger machines had
been favoured by shared hosting providers, loses. In this context
Sun's purchase of Cobalt ranks as an extremely sensible move, though
it may become very hard for Cobalt to continue to envangelise the
Linux environment with Sun as a parent company.
Equifax goes past 1000 SSL sites
When [17]Verisign bought [18]Thawte shortly before last Christmas it
gained such a dominating position in the SSL certificate market that
many wondered whether anyone would attempt to challenge its position,
given that it held in excess of 99% of the issued SSL server
certificates. [19]Equifax has risen to the challenge, and has adopted
a similar strategy to that orginally proven by Thawte, making sure
that it is by far the cheapest provider in the market. During the last
year it has sold server certificates as cheaply as $45 per site, and
our SSL Survey found more than 1000 sites using Equifax certificates
this month, giving it around a 1% share. of the internet SSL
certificate market. Verisign businesses still hold 98%, however.
Dogfood
HotMail
We were premature with last month's comment to the effect that Windows
2000 had replaced FreeBSD at HotMail. Markus Senoner was first to
point out that although [20]www.hotmail.com is indeed running Windows
2000, several of the other HotMail [21]front end servers are still
running FreeBSD.
amazon.com adopts Linux ...
Also last month we pointed out that [22]www.amazon.com was serving a
"powered by HP" logo from a Digital Unix machine. This month Amazon
has introduced Linux into its load balanced pool. Over the last week,
some 43% of requests have been served from Linux.
... but andover.net prefers Solaris
One of the most frequently queried hosts of late on our server query
form recently has been [23]www.andover.net Andover owns the Linux news
site [24]www.slashdot.org and is itself a subsiduary of leading Linux
hardware vendor [25]www.valinux.com so people are often surprised to
see it running Solaris.
References
1. http://www.netzero.com/
2. http://www.zeus.com/
3. http://www.mydomain.com/
4. http://www.uu.net/
5. http://www.psi.com/
6. http://www.exodus.net/
7. http://www.rackspace.com/
8. http://www.dn.net/
9. http://www.interland.net/
10. http://www.interliant.net/
11. http://www.dialtoneinternet.net/
12. http://www.crystaltech.com/
13. http://www.dellhost.com/
14. http://search.ft.com/search/multi/globalarchive.jsp?docId=000918006520&query=netcraft&resultsShown=20&resultsToRequest=100
15. https://order.dellhost.com/order.htm
16. http://www.cobalt.com/
17. http://www.verisign.com/
18. http://www.thawte.com/
19. http://www.equifax.com/
20. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com
21. http://www.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+ends+with&host=hotmail.com&lookup=Wait..&position=limited
22. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.amazon.com
23. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.andover.net
24. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.slashdot.org
25. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.valinux.com
Printed from Apache Today (https://apachetoday.com).
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