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  1. March 2006 Web Server Survey

    In the March 2006 survey we received responses from 77,568,868 sites, an increase of 1.38 million from February 2006. This month's hostname growth has a somewhat speculative flavor, as the survey found nearly 2.8 million new hostnames this month, but just 237K new active sites. That ratio of one active site for every 12 hostnames is much lower than in recent months (in September 2005 the ratio was one in five).

    That means a larger percentage of new domains are being parked, rather than used on active web sites. The trend is likely connected to media coverage of domain investing, which appears to have prompted a surge in speculative buying. That means more domains are being bought for resale or ad revenue, rather than for use with web sites.

    Infrastructure changes at huge hosting providers once again influence web server market share. Apache gains 1.5 million hostnames this month, including more than 950K at Go Daddy which had been reclassified in January to "Unknown" due to changes in the front-end system used in Go Daddy's bulk hosting service. That shift helps Apache regain 0.7 percent market share, with other servers showing little change this month.

    Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - March 2006

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - March 2006

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - March 2006

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - March 2006

    Top Developers
    DeveloperFebruary 2006PercentMarch 2006PercentChange
    Apache5181067668.015328729868.700.69
    Microsoft1566670220.561591242720.51-0.05
    Sun18803132.4718815872.43-0.04
    Zeus5791980.765746070.74-0.02

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    Posted by Netcraft on 6th March, 2006 in Web Server Survey Share

  2. New Reseller Service Offers Utility Computing for $100 a Month

    Mosso Inc. wants to bring affordable utility computing to the masses - or at least to web designers and developers. The start-up, which is backed by Rackspace Managed Hosting, has just launched an innovative reseller hosting service that offers unlimited websites, databases and e-mail accounts in a turnkey service for just $100 a month.

    Mosso uses a "hosting system" of clusters of specialized servers, an approach typically seen in enterprise hosting, which can offer advantages in redundancy and performance. The company was built from the ground-up as an alternative to discount dedicated servers, which have been enormously popular with hosting resellers and power users.

    Mosso's $100 a month reseller account comes with 80 gigabytes of storage space and 2,000 gigs of monthly data transfer. Customer support and billing are available as paid add-ons, allowing customers to outsource both services for just $5 per domain per month. Traffic load balancing and mitigation of denial of service attacks are included in each account, along with the ability to combine Windows and open source technologies on a web site, running ASP and PHP pages from the same web directory. There are significant differences with dedicated server solutions as well, as Mosso offers FTP uploads but not shell or root access.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 4th March, 2006 in Hosting Share

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