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Netcraft
October survey
The October Netcraft Server Survey shows Apache losing
market share to Microsoft, taking it to 56% of the server market. However, this
is mostly due to a single ISP who have a large number of virtual hosts running
IIS. This isn't the first time that a single company has been able to skew the
survey, in Apache
Week issue 164 we explained how a single ISP that had over 90,000 sites
caused a large impact in the results.
Another ISP, homepage.com, has set up their systems so that every possible
combination of hostname (such as http://apacheweek-testing.homepage.com/)
responds to a web page request. This means that they could potentially register
billions of sites with the Netcraft Survey giving Apache just under 100% market
share. Other surveys have tried to combat this by restricting themselves to
looking at the sites run by known or large companies. In Apache Week issue 172
we suggested that looking at sites running secure servers with valid third-party
certificates gives a better indication to the state of the market. 
Amazon.com switch to Apache
The on-line site check
from Netcraft shows that Amazon.com are now using Stronghold, an Apache-based
server, to serve their sites. The switch, from an old version of the Netscape
server, happened earlier this week.
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