Comments on: Windows web server market share grows

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:18:25 +0000

> i think this is because the blog giants are adding millions of web sites per month

It’s possible; I agree it would help to have a fuller breakdown of the figures.

Tim

By: omz

omz — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:58:34 +0000

>Netcraft reports that Windows/IIS
>has a growing share of the web server market
i think this is because the blog giants are adding millions of web sites per month; this is a new trend and is distortioning the situation. For “canonical” web sites i believe the 70% for Apache still hold

see this:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/02/04/new_york_internet_webcom_and_iweb8_most_reliable_hosting_companies_in_january_2007.html

By: Apache vs. IIS

Apache vs. IIS — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:45:51 +0000

I have not look at it extensively, but it would appear that the methodology used by netcraft [to decide what an active site is], throws away most sites sharing the same IP, and compares the rest via a hash of the html tag structure…