Interesting, thanks.

Any idea how those numbers have been changing over time?



"sean dreilinger" <sean-usenet@durak.org> wrote in message
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> Paul Pedersen wrote:
>> My initial response would be "Apache of course, because it's by far the
>> most
>> widely used". But I see from Netcraft
>>
>> http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200709/graphs.html
>>
>> that IIS usage has been growing rapidly, mostly at the expense of Apache.
>
> the netcraft web server survey is a census - it attempts to look at the
> Server
> header on every web(virtual)host on the internet, regardless of whether or
> not
> that website has any traffic. http://survey.netcraft.com/mechanics.html
>
> the netcraft survey gives as much credence to a desktop computer
> accidentally
> running a web service as it does to a domain-parking web server that has a
> million domains with zero daily traffic as it gives to a top-tier, high
> traffic
> server or server farm operating under a single hostname like cnn.com,
> myspace.com, wikipedia.org, google.com, cnet.com, or facebook.com, and
> fielding
> millions or billions of requests per day.
>
> imho it would be much more interesting to crawl the 100 or 1,000
> most-trafficked
> web servers on the net and look at what's visible in _their_ Server:
> header:
>
> http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sit...obal&lang=none
>
> here's a breakdown of Server: header among the alexa top-100 sites (some
> of
> these sites do not publish a Server: header, so the total is not 100)
>
> Server: count
> ======= =====
> Apache 40
> Microsoft-IIS 12
> gws 21
> nginx 3
> AOLserver 2
> GFE 2
> lighttpd 2
> Server 2
> Resin 1
> DMS 1
> LiteSpeed 1
> BWS 1
> web 1
> aris 1
> TUX 1
>
> --sean
>
>
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