Apache Webserver Surpasses 50 Million Website Mark 202
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."
I'm impressed (Score:4, Insightful)
Such an enormous collection of data, it boggles my mind.
Re:I'm impressed (Score:3, Insightful)
BTW, does Netcraft have a version of the DowJones 500 to see what the top 500 sites are running? I can't seem to find anything....
Re:Odd lines in chart (Score:5, Insightful)
Several big hosting providers were trying to switch their hosting between Apache and IIS. Providers that are big enough to actually make those kinds of dents in the graph. As you can see from the final result, most of them figured out Apache was the better solution. I wouldn't use IIS to serve HTML either, only if the content required
Kjella
Re:Actually... (Score:2, Insightful)
Well happy birthday or something (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Odd lines in chart (Score:3, Insightful)
I wouldn't use IIS to serve HTML either,
I've dealt with both Apache and IIS professionally and by far--by far!--I have encountered the most issues with IIS, from little annoyances to full-blown meltdowns. I'm not sure how IIS survives in the market place when its competitor is more robust, functions better and is free. Chalk one up to the marketing people at MS, I guess.
Re:Odd lines in chart (Score:5, Insightful)
What would be really interesting... (Score:4, Insightful)
Innovation (Score:1, Insightful)
Quality issue (Score:3, Insightful)
Qualitywise, MS SQL Server is the IIS of the database world. Only if you somehow got locked into .NET or some other proprietary hook into MS would you need MS SQL over an industry standard like Postgresql [postgresql.org] or MySQL [mysql.com] which are in approximately the same niche. Those two are even starting to nibble at the heels of Oracle in some contexts, unlike MS SQL.
MS has tried give aways before with IIS. People learn their lesson and move on, unless they get locked in. The same goes with SQL databases.
So a purchase price of zero is an advantage, but the main reason people use Apache and the other parts of LAMP is the quality. The price is just gravy.
Re:Three considerations (Score:3, Insightful)
Netcraft is very clear about this [netcraft.com].
One server running 10,000 virtual hosts is 10,000 "sites".
This is why historically thttpd did very well in Netcraft surveys -- it was good at hosting thousands of sites from one server (and allowed throttling of over-used sites).
Re:What would be really interesting... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's pretty easy for any person to colo a LAMP setup and host the webpage of everyone they know who doesn't want to be on geocities anymore... far easier than plunking down the cash for a Windows 2003 install with IIS6.
Of course, there are always studies like that of Port 80 software who found that 53.7% of corporate web servers were running IIS, vs the 22.7% of Apache.
See http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webs
Re:Why use IIS? (Score:3, Insightful)
One word: ASP.
Many corporate sites start of as a set of static pages with a "Contact us" web form. ASP is typically used for that as it requires only minimal programming effort.
Later on, when more dynamic content is added, they will often stick with IIS since they already know it.
Re:Micosoft salesrep (Score:3, Insightful)
If your IT department is afraid of editing text files (I assume that was supposed to mean "edit", right?), then you have a bigger problem than being dependant on Microsoft, anyway.
Re:Quality issue (Score:4, Insightful)
I've got to disagree with you on this one. MS-SQL is about the -only- MS product that is worth a damn.
MySQL? I think you need to lay off the Kool-Aid. Postgresql? Maybe, but it doesn't come with the suite of tools that you get with MS-SQL.
Really, I dislike MS as much as the next slashbot, but MS SQL server is the exception to the rule.