Apache Webserver Surpasses 50 Million Website Mark

chris81 writes "For the first time ever, the Apache Web Server is powering more than 50 million websites, according to Netcraft's Web Server Survey for October. Although relative share fell by 0.67 percent, the total number of sites powered by Apache grew to over 52 million. Microsoft's IIS finished second with more than 15 million sites served."

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Err....

[Anonymous Coward]

>>Microsoft's IIS finished second with more than 15 million sites served.
Now did they try to find how many actually work ;)

Oh!

[Martz]

Isn't that the number of servers required just to power /.?

I smell a rat!

Micosoft salesrep

[kryten_nl]

Microsoft salesrep: "You know, Apache's relative share fell by *cough*0.*cough* 67 percent!!!"

Re:I'm impressed

[AvantLegion]

True. But once you remove the porn, there's only about 500 or so.

Re:I'm impressed

[aussie_a]

Such an enormous collection of data, it boggles my mind.

Here's a list of what the sites are (from most populous): 1: Porn sites
2: Spam sites
3: Spyware sites
4: Scamming sites
5: Warez sites
6: Blogs
7: Message boards
8: Wikipedia duplicates (where they copy and paste Wikipedia entries)
9: Software related sites
10: Other business related sites
11: Education-related websites.

As you can see, most of it is just rubbish.

Now can we have the results for Gopher servers!

[Viol8]

Just curious. Also would be nice to see the current amount of WAIS
and Archie servers left! :o)

Re:Actually...

[QuantumG]

I wonder how it compares to this graph [venganza.org].

Re:Err....

[diegocgteleline.es]

since they were detected, I assume all of them?

Re:I'm impressed

[DrSkwid]

It's no myth.

Re:I'm impressed

[lucas teh geek]

It's a pitty you've been modded funny, i would have modded you insightful

Just need to check

[peterpi]

I'm just updating my fanboyism and I need to check some figures.

• IIS' 20% market share is rubbish.
• Firefox's 10% share is the greatest thing evar.

Re:I'm impressed

[drstock]

"I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left, and it would be called Bring Back The Porn."
- Dr Cox from Scrubs.

Re:Why use IIS?

[ooh456]

Here are the top 10 reasons people choose IIS over Apache:

10. Because they don't know what they are doing.
9. Because their customers don't know what they're doing.
8. Because they are partnered with MS.
7. Because they are racist against Native Americans.
6. Because they get some orgasmic thrill from spending money on slower, inferior products and services.
5. Because the same reason they use Hotmail over Gmail.
6. Because they are really using Apache... but configure it to report itself as IIS to confuse attackers.
5. Because they are originally from another dimension where IIS works better than Apache.
4. Because they were playing a practical joke on their users and then died suddenly.
3. Because they are brainwashed from listening to too many Steve Balmer speeches.
2. Because really all those IIS servers out there are just Microsoft's own servers trying to keep MSN.com running.
1. Because they smoke a lot of crack.

Logical Target

[soloport]

Look. Apache is targeted by all the script kiddies because it's SO popular. I mean, if you were a script kiddie and saw such a huge target as Apache, compared to the IIS install base, which one would YOU go after? You IIS *zealots* are a big turn-off to the rest of the web serving community.

Re:Logical Target

[Anonymous Coward]

Your argument is screaming from the logical torture you're putting it through. I hope you get some kind of reward for thinking that way - it would sadden me greatly to learn your brain actually does that sort of thing naturally.

Re:I'm impressed

[tb3]

Yes, but Windows servers have an uptime bug, too. It's called "Windows Server".

Re:Apache share *INCREASED*

[cakesy]

Yeah, but from October to September, Apache's share went from 69.89% to 69.15% (-0.74%).

Makes you think, doesn't it?