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  1. Forthcoming Events

    Both Apache and Microsoft have significant events scheduled during the next few weeks. Apachecon takes place November 16-19th in Las Vegas, and features tutorials and presentations by many of the Apache core team. Meanwhile, Microsoft has arranged a series of technical seminars at locations throughout Europe during October aimed at ISPs, hosting companies, and people running large scale Microsoft-IIS deployments.

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 29th September, 2003 in Around the Net Share

  2. Windows Server 2003 doubles active sites since July; 5% were previously running Linux

    Windows 2003 continues to increase in total hostname and active sites, with the number of active sites growing 109% to 185K since July 2003.

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    Largest Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    hosting companies by Active sites, Sept 2003
    CompanyActive Sites
      Myhosting.com32,810
      Fasthosts22,949
      AdvancedAccess10,439
      Interland8,066
      1&1 Internet6,027
      InterNed Services5,229
      GMO5,113
      ViaWest4,099

    Myhosting.com continues to be the top hoster of active Windows Server 2003 sites, and now has over 98% of their active sites migrated to Windows 2003.

    Comparing the sites which are now hosted on Windows 2003 with their operating system in January 2003 shows over 42% of these to be new sites, 49% (153K) to be upgrades from other Windows platforms (mainly Windows 2000), 5% (16.5K) to be migrations from Linux and 1% from FreeBSD (3K) and 1% from Solaris (2.5K).

    Notably, the number of sites switching from Linux has proportionately kept pace since July when many commentators thought the 5% of sites switched to Windows 2003 from Linux was an aberration.

    Posted by Mandy Davis on 10th September, 2003 in Around the Net, Hosting Share

  3. Do SSL Certificate Authorities still have a margin generating business model?

    Rackshack recently started selling SSL Certificates at $25 per annum. Offering to bundle a certificate with a hosting service would be a completely conventional offer to a SSL site owner, but Rackshack is pushing the model further, by offering subsidised certificates purely as a way of bringing itself to SSL site owners' attention.

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    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 9th September, 2003 in Hosting Share

  4. Featureprice – 70% of hostnames have moved

    Featureprice customers suffered a prolonged unavailability of their sites during the summer.

    Over the past 6 months many customers have moved to find alternative hosting services with over 69% of hostnames from May 2003 now elsewhere.

    Sites Hosted At Featureprice
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    Posted by Mandy Davis on 3rd September, 2003 in Hosting Share

  5. September 2003 Web Server Survey

    In the September 2003 survey we received responses from 43,144,374 sites.

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
    August 1995 - September 2003

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - September 2003

    Top Developers

    Developer August 2003 Percent September 2003 Percent Change
    Apache 27388860 63.98 27836622 64.52 0.54
    Microsoft 10165745 23.75 10156289 23.54 -0.21
    SunONE 1534586 3.58 1501241 3.48 -0.10
    Zeus 746240 1.74 742950 1.72 -0.02
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    Posted by Netcraft Admin on 1st September, 2003 in Web Server Survey Share

  6. Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites during August

    Many events that could adversely affect performance and reliability hit the hosting industry during August including Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, the Power Outage in the North East US and Canada, a much shorter outage in London, the Blaster Worm, the SoBig Virus, and a deluge of related mail from poorly written anti-virus programs.

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    August 1st - August 31st

    Top Performing Hosting Company Sites

    Remarkably the numbers of failed requests to hosting company sites did not rise significantly during the month; a testament to the durability of the Internet. However this hid some big variations: (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 1st September, 2003 in Hosting, Performance Share