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  1. July 2010 Web Server Survey

    In the July 2010 survey we received responses from 205,714,253 sites.

    This month's results show that three of the six major web servers have gained hostnames in the last month, while the other three suffered losses.

    The largest of these gains came from Apache, which saw an increase of over 1.1M hostnames.

    Google's share has continued to increase, albeit at a slower rate than last month with just under 500k additional hostnames. This is due to increased activity on Blogger.

    lighttpd suffered the largest overall loss this month, falling by 446k hostnames. This was caused by the loss of 690k hostnames at Savvis in Australia. Microsoft also experienced a loss this month, serving 648k fewer hostnames worldwide and also losing 265k active sites. A big contributor to this was a loss of 388k hostnames due to lower activity on Microsoft Live Spaces.

    Total Sites Across All Domains
    August 1995 - July 2010

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - July 2010


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

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


    DeveloperJune 2010PercentJuly 2010PercentChange
    Apache111,792,32154.02%112,945,96854.90%0.89
    Microsoft53,865,34526.03%53,217,62025.87%-0.16
    Google15,375,9507.43%15,849,8537.70%0.28
    nginx11,264,2295.44%11,474,6965.58%0.14
    lighttpd1,704,7970.82%1,258,8000.61%-0.21
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    Posted by Netcraft on 16th July, 2010 in Web Server Survey Share

  2. Firefox security test add-on was backdoored

    A backdoor has been discovered among a collection of security testing tools for Firefox.

    The rogue Mozilla Sniffer add-on was included in the Web Application Security Penetration Testing collection. This set of tools is popular within the security community, as it simplifies the process of discovering vulnerabilities in web applications.

    However, using the Mozilla Sniffer add-on would have introduced an unexpected vulnerability in any application being tested — whenever a login form was submitted, the add-on secretly sent a copy of the URL, password and other details to an IP address presumably controlled by the malicious author.

    (more...)

    Posted by Paul Mutton on 15th July, 2010 in Security Share

  3. Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2010

    Rank Company site OS Outage
    hh:mm:ss    		 Failed
    Req%    		 DNS Connect First
    byte    		 Total
    1 INetU unknown 0.000 0.104 0.048 0.110 0.234
    2 DataPipe FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.008 0.101 0.022 0.046 0.062
    3 New York Internet FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.008 0.142 0.088 0.188 0.469
    4 Multacom FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.015 0.123 0.090 0.181 0.499
    5 Netcetera Windows Server 2003 0:00:00 0.015 0.090 0.115 0.231 0.471
    6 iWeb Technologies Linux 0:00:00 0.019 1.089 0.051 0.103 0.103
    7 Kattare Internet Services Linux 0:00:00 0.023 0.195 0.092 0.186 0.526
    8 Memset Linux 0:00:00 0.023 0.051 0.118 0.237 0.237
    9 Hosting 4 Less Linux 0:00:00 0.031 0.097 0.087 0.181 0.503
    10 NaviSite Linux 0:00:00 0.031 0.305 0.096 0.194 0.387

    See full table

    This month INetU is the most reliable hosting company website. It responded to every one of our requests during the month, only the second site to do this so far this year. INetU is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Red Hat Ready Hosting Partner. It supports Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both physical servers and virtualized instances on dedicated machines.

    Datapipe is a managed hosting and IT services company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 1998, the company now maintains eight offices and six data centers in Somerset - NJ, San Jose - CA, the United Kingdom, and China. The company's main site runs FreeBSD and has consitstenly been at the top of our most reliable hosting company sites table, this month ranking second.

    Last month's most reliable hosting company, New York Internet now appears in third place.

    Netcetera.co.uk, Kattare Internet Services, Memset and Hosting 4 Less have moved into the top 10 this month, which means there are now 5 hosting companies running Linux, 3 running FreeBSD and 1 running Windows.

    Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty 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.

    Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.

    Posted by Netcraft on 7th July, 2010 in Performance Share