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The article only compares Windows hosting numbers. It does not include Linux. I think for Amazon the number of Windows hosts is relatively small compared to the
by Gys 13y ago
The article only compares Windows hosting numbers. It does not include Linux. I think for Amazon the number of Windows hosts is relatively small compared to the total hostings...
A typical vendor-sponsered research result :-)
- skc 13y agoThe article clearly says "In the February 2014 Web Server survey Netcraft found 27,000 web-facing computers (both Windows and Linux) using the cloud computing platform."
- fieryscribe 13y agoYes, that's the total number of web-facing computers found on Azure, of which 23,400 are Windows-based. Amazon has 22,600 Windows-based web-facing computers, which puts it in second-place for world's largest Windows hosting company. They never directly compared the Linux-based web-facing computers. The original article at NetCraft is slightly more clear about this: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/02/26/microsoft-neck-and-neck-with-amazon-in-windows-hosting.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/02/26/microsoft-neck-...