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  1. November 2008 Web Server Survey

    The November 2008 survey shows worldwide monthly growth of nearly three million websites, with responses now being received from a total of 185,167,897 sites.

    Apache once again tops this month's growth, gaining 1.3 million sites to 93 million, but Microsoft-IIS follows closely gaining 1.1 million extra sites to reach 64 million. Google has grown by 509 thousand this month to approach the 11 million mark.

    One interesting change this month is the appearance of 221,000 sites hosted by Yahoo! that now identify themselves as running on the Yahoo! Traffic Server proxy. Last month's survey found only 521 sites that claimed to be running on YTS.

    Yahoo! is thought to use YTS to provide reverse proxy and connection management in a number of its services, although many of the company's sites were previously configured to omit the Server header in their HTTP responses. Yahoo! sites thought to use YTS include Bix, delicious, Flickr and Yahoo Groups.

    Yahoo! Traffic Server is used to serve 12 billion requests per day. It was originally developed by Inktomi Corporation as a proxy cache for web traffic and streaming media. Websense acquired the technology behind Inktomi's proxy server, modifying it for use in their WebBlazer Web Threat Management System. Inktomi was then acquired by Yahoo! in 2002.

    Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - November 2008

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - November 2008

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - November 2008

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - November 2008

    Top Developers
    DeveloperOctober 2008PercentNovember 2008PercentChange
    Apache91,888,50850.43%93,207,59150.34%-0.09
    Microsoft62,766,92834.44%63,871,27934.49%0.05
    Google10,487,6075.76%10,996,9415.94%0.18
    lighttpd3,072,4571.69%3,030,9581.64%-0.05

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    Posted by Netcraft on 19th November, 2008 in Web Server Survey Share

  2. green.ch is the Most Reliable Hosting Company in October 2008

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    October 1st – 31th 2008

    Rank Company site OS Outage
    hh:mm:ss    		 Failed
    Req%    		 DNS Connect First
    byte    		 Total
    1 www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.197 0.107 0.270 0.581
    2 New York Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.004  0.008 0.055 0.110 0.254
    3 Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  0.004  0.018 0.061 0.122 0.122
    4 www.reliableservers.com unknown  0:00:00  0.004  0.006 0.065 0.138 0.206
    5 www.he.net Linux  0:00:00  0.004  0.005 0.069 0.143 0.213
    6 Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.008  0.114 0.115 0.233 0.461
    7 www.swishmail.com FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.013  0.005 0.059 0.118 0.304
    8 Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.013  0.074 0.073 0.147 0.147
    9 www.godaddy.com Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.017  0.028 0.054 0.131 0.575
    10 www.navisite.com Linux  0:00:00  0.017  0.065 0.059 0.143 0.615

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    green.ch is the most reliable hosting company site for October 2008. This is the only site that responded to every request made by Netcraft's performance collectors throughout the month.

    With more than 70,000 customers, green.ch is one of the leading Swiss internet service providers for small and medium sized businesses. Originally known as agri.ch, the company was formed from a management buyout of the SME and Private Customer division of Cable & Wireless.

    green.ch provides broadband internet access and uses its own data centre in Switzerland to focus on providing website hosting, email, SharePoint and VoIP telephony solutions.

    green.ch uses Microsoft IIS 6.0 to serve its main site via an F5 BIG-IP device. The company also uses F5 BIG-IP for over 90% of its customers' websites, making green.ch the largest hoster of sites on F5 BIG-IP in Switzerland.

    Linux is used by five of October's top ten hosting companies, while two use FreeBSD and Go Daddy uses Windows Server 2003.

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    Posted by Paul Mutton on 11th November, 2008 in Performance Share