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April 2014 Web Server Survey
- jebblue 12y ago>> Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in February. Many of the spammer/hacker CIDR's I block from my server are owned by Nobis. I thought that's interesting to compare.
- mike-cardwell 12y agoIs there a reason we're looking at last months survey instead of this months? http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/05/07/may-2014-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/05/07/may-2014-web-se...
- diziet 12y agonginx gained on 'active sites' and the 'top million sites' metrics. They have an interesting way of determining active sites: http://www.netcraft.com/active-sites/ http://www.netcraft.com/active-sites/
- SimeVidas 12y agon00b question: My Node hosting on Modulus falls under the "Other" category, right?
- frik 12y agono, just read the HTTP header of your website in your browsers developer tools (F12 short cut) in the network tab, there you can usually find the server software. or use a free online service that shows you the HTTP header of an URL. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org Server: Apache
- SimeVidas 12y agoThere is no Server field in the HTTP response of my site.
- frik 12y agoIf someone is shocked viewing the Market share of all sites and thinks it's tltr, here is the relevant snip: Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in February. [...] Many of the new IIS sites hosted by Nobis Technology Group feature similar content and form part of a Chinese link farm. Market share of active sites: 52% Apache 14% nginx 11% Microsoft 08% Google
- currysausage 12y agoAlways wondering: Why are there so many sites using Google HTTP servers? Are there really that many deployments of Google Sites or App Engine? Difficult to imagine. What am I missing?
- frik 12y agoGoogle is in the netcraft stats since July 2007. They rebranded their Apache installations as "Google" with no version info back then (Google.com, BlogSpot.com, Youtube.com, GMail.com, etc.). It was in the media at that time and you can clearly see the drop in Apache installations in mid 2007. Don't forget Google services are available in various language domains like Google.co.uk, Google.de, etc. And Google Sites servers launched in 2007. Google App Engine initial release was in April 2008.
- Aqueous 12y agoIs it really just re-branded Apache? It seems like vanilla Apache isn't capable of the low response times that Google has. What Apache extensions/modifications does Google use?
- currysausage 12y agoWho said Apache isn't capable of low response times?
- Aqueous 12y agoIt seems incapable of the lowest response times, which it seems like Google has. Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. In my experience nginx, which keeps several worker processes open and processes requests asynchronously is much faster.
- pling 12y agoApache has a prefork MPM procesas model that allows it to run in the same way.
- d0ugie 12y agoAmongst Google's web server's special sauce is the QUIC protocol.