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  1. February 2010 Web Server Survey

    In the February 2010 survey we received responses from 207,316,960 sites.

    The biggest change of the month belongs to Apache with a 1.6M increase in hostnames. It was closely followed by Microsoft which saw a growth of 1.1M.

    After a year long consistent rise nginx is experiencing a loss for a second month in a row as inactive weblogs on WordPress and 163.com are expired out of the survey. This month nginx had a decrease of 1.5M hostnames, which brings its total down to the number of hostnames it had in October.

    China Internet Network Information Center has recently announced a change in the .cn domain name registration regulations. Since December 14th individuals can no longer register .cn domains and a paper application has to be submitted to register one along with photocopies of the company business license and registrant ID. While this has reduced the frequency of .cn domains in spam, it does not seem to have affected the growth of the domain. Netcraft has discovered 49k new hostnames in .cn this month, compared to 37k in December, 59k in November and 39k in October.

    Total Sites Across All Domains
    August 1995 - February 2010

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - February 2010


    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
    August 1995 - February 2010

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - February 2010


    DeveloperJanuary 2010PercentFebruary 2010PercentChange
    Apache111,307,94153.84%112,903,92654.46%0.62
    Microsoft49,792,84424.08%50,928,22624.57%0.48
    Google14,550,0117.04%14,315,4646.91%-0.13
    nginx15,568,2247.53%13,978,7196.74%-0.79
    lighttpd955,1460.46%1,097,6850.53%0.07
    (more...)

    Posted by Netcraft on 22nd February, 2010 in Web Server Survey Share

  2. Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2010

    Rank Company site OS Outage
    hh:mm:ss    		 Failed
    Req%    		 DNS Connect First
    byte    		 Total
    1 www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.005  0.687 0.074 0.218 0.602
    2 Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.005  0.130 0.090 0.189 0.498
    3 www.navisite.com Linux  0:00:00  0.010  0.773 0.034 0.528 0.631
    4 DataPipe unknown  0:00:00  0.010  0.294 0.036 0.053 0.070
    5 INetU unknown  0:00:00  0.014  0.233 0.036 0.089 0.135
    6 Pair Networks FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.014  0.278 0.045 0.093 0.223
    7 New York Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.019  0.069 0.032 0.070 0.186
    8 Swishmail FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.024  0.558 0.033 0.068 0.173
    9 www.memset.com Linux  0:00:00  0.024  0.658 0.081 0.164 0.164
    10 Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.024  0.186 0.098 0.196 0.196

    See full table

    The first month of 2010 saw The Planet and Hosting 4 Less have the most reliable hosting company sites. Both sites responded to all but one of Netcraft's requests in January.

    The Planet provides dedicated servers, managed hosting and colocation services to more than 20,000 businesses. The company has more than 10 million websites in Netcraft's Hosting Provider Analysis and uses Windows Server 2003 to run its own website.

    Hosting 4 Less offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, with its own OC48 Sonet Ring connecting their secure data center to the internet. Hosting 4 Less has been running since 1998 and currently uses Apache on Linux to serve its own website.

    Four of the most reliable hosting company sites in January were identified as running Linux, while three were using FreeBSD and one was using Windows Server 2003.

    Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

    From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

    Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.

    Posted by Paul Mutton on 2nd February, 2010 in Performance Share