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  1. June 2004 Web Server Survey

    In the June 2004 survey we received responses from 51,635,284 sites.

    Although web server market share has been relatively stable in recent months, the web is again growing very rapidly both in absolute terms and in terms of active sites hosting distinct content. As measured by hostnames, the Internet has grown 26.1 percent over the past 12 months, adding 10.7 million since the June 2003 survey. That's the strongest period of sustained growth since the boom era of Feb. 2000-2001, during which the Web added 16.9 million hostnames. Thus far in 2004, the net gain has averaged nearly 1 million per month.

    Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - June 2004

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - June 2004

    The surge in hostnames and active sites has been accompanied by robust growth in the use of the Internet for business. The number of servers using Secure Sockets Layer encryption has grown 56.7 percent in the most recent 12-month period (April 2003 to April 2004), according to our Secure Server Survey. More than 300,000 servers are now using valid third-party SSL certificates, which provide encryption for online banking, retail sales, e-commerce and the secure information exchange.

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - June 2004

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - June 2004

    Top Developers
    Developer May 2004Percent June 2004Percent Change
    Apache3389281767.053471023567.220.17
    Microsoft1085816821.481102180721.35-0.13
    Sun16444123.2516599563.21-0.04
    Zeus7540141.497631521.48-0.01

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    Posted by Netcraft on 6th June, 2004 in Web Server Survey Share

  2. Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers?

    Wiki maintainers can expect an increase in spam after a webmaster newsletter highlighted the effectiveness of Wiki spam in raising a site's Google ranking. WebProNews described how a webmaster improved his rank in a search engine optimization (SEO) contest using links in Wiki "sandboxes" - pages where users are urged to test drive the format and learn how to use it.

    Spam and abusive behavior are not new issues for Wikis, web pages that anyone can edit or even delete. But it has yet to approach the level seen in weblogs, where automated comment spamming with links to Viagra, porn or herbal remedies has forced many bloggers to shut down their comment section or install blacklist plugins. The torrent of comment spam is not designed to produce clicks, but rather to improve the spammers' Google ranking.

    This week Jan Philipp Lenssen described how he used a campaign of Wiki sandbox postings to attain the top position in an ongoing competition between SEO professionals to attain the highest Google rank for a random term - in this case nigritude ultramarine.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 4th June, 2004 in Security Share

  3. Most Reliable Hosting Providers during May

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    May 1st - 31st 2004

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    During May, an Italian hosting company,Seeweb, was the most reliable of the hosting company sites we monitor. Second placed was the Jumpline site, which was top of the chart last month.

    Linux and FreeBSD were evenly split amongst the top 10 sites with four sites each, with MyHosting.com running Windows Server 2003 and DellHost on Windows 2000.

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    Posted by Mandy Davis on 2nd June, 2004 in Performance Share

  4. Phishing Worm Installs Trojan Without Trickery

    The threat posed by phishing has racheted up a notch with the Korgo worm, which auto-infects unpatched Windows systems with a keylogging trojan, steals online banking information, and secretly transmits data back to the fraudsters.

    The worm represents an alarming advance in phishing, as it forgoes the need to trick the end user into divulging details. Phishing trojans that monitor keystrokes are not new, but to date have required some form of response to an e-mail "bait." Korgo uses the LSASS vulnerability to auto-infect Windows systems that haven't applied the MS04-11 patch issued April 11.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 2nd June, 2004 in Security Share

  5. Who’s the new (J)Boss?

    Open source adoption within companies has occurred in a series of waves, each moving free software successively closer to the heart of the enterprise. First, there was Apache, whose rise is documented vividly in the Netcraft server survey. After the Web server, open source began to find favour for file serving, typically using GNU/Linux and Samba. GNU/Linux was also used to run proprietary databases like Oracle and DB2, but more recently open source databases like MySQL have proved increasingly popular with companies.

    Although the open source desktop is clearly reaching a tipping point in terms of broader adoption - not least thanks to the maturity of offerings like OpenOffice and the Firefox browser - it is arguable that the next bastion of proprietary software to fall will be that of the application server.

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    Posted by Glyn Moody on 1st June, 2004 in Around the Net Share

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