Operating system detection now reports Network Appliance Netcache

We have recently added detection of Network Appliance’s Netcache devices to uptime.netcraft.com and the Web Server Survey.

Netcaches are reasonably expensive devices, and internet-wide we find only around a thousand in use as reverse proxies. However, one of these devices is at GoDaddy and serves content for in the region of 1.4 million template sites and redirects for domains registered by GoDaddy.

Many of the NetApp installations are well known and prestigious sites, including Nokia, Motorola, and Sony. Apple's mac.com and the US 8th Army in Korea are also users as is The Gap, where the Netcache is itself fronted by a Redline Network Accelerator.

Having the GoDaddy deployment become widely known may help Network Appliance bring their Netcaches to the attention of other hosting companies who will note that GoDaddy have one of the smallest gross margins in the industry - $3 per annum on a domain name sale - but still perceive the value in the Netcache over and above the conventionally favoured Linux on Intel hardware.

One attribute of the Netcache community that is already noticeable is that sites who use Netcache devices often use more than one of them. Reviewing the time since reboot returned for the following sites indicates at least two at nokia.com and sonypictures.com, and four at motorola.com and Nikkei, and the possibility of many more at each of these sites.

Time since reboot for some Netcache sites Run Host Days-up GMT Boot Time 16 Oct www.sonypictures.com 0.783 Thu Oct 16 01:16:08 2003 17 Oct www.sonypictures.com 1.785 Thu Oct 16 01:19:17 2003 18 Oct www.sonypictures.com 2.780 Thu Oct 16 01:22:24 2003 19 Oct www.sonypictures.com 9.948 Thu Oct 9 21:21:20 2003 20 Oct www.sonypictures.com 4.779 Thu Oct 16 01:28:40 2003 21 Oct www.sonypictures.com 5.779 Thu Oct 16 01:31:49 2003 15 Oct www.nokia.com 100.364 Mon Jul 7 11:20:36 2003 16 Oct www.nokia.com 134.822 Wed Jun 4 07:37:03 2003 18 Oct www.nokia.com 0.064 Sat Oct 18 18:35:21 2003 19 Oct www.nokia.com 1.391 Sat Oct 18 18:20:52 2003 20 Oct www.nokia.com 2.348 Sat Oct 18 18:35:02 2003 21 Oct www.nokia.com 3.470 Sat Oct 18 18:28:17 2003 15 Oct www.motorola.com 201.767 Fri Mar 28 01:39:21 2003 17 Oct www.motorola.com 190.801 Thu Apr 10 00:52:39 2003 18 Oct www.motorola.com 135.193 Thu Jun 5 15:27:38 2003 19 Oct www.motorola.com 200.678 Wed Apr 2 03:47:11 2003 20 Oct www.motorola.com 201.682 Wed Apr 2 03:46:48 2003 21 Oct www.motorola.com 194.804 Thu Apr 10 00:51:01 2003 16 Oct www.nikkei.co.jp 118.747 Fri Jun 20 02:13:56 2003 18 Oct www.nikkei.co.jp 95.342 Tue Jul 15 19:01:39 2003 19 Oct www.nikkei.co.jp 164.820 Thu May 8 07:30:20 2003 20 Oct www.nikkei.co.jp 388.107 Sat Sep 28 01:13:04 2002