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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 30, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) announced on Wednesday it has released the results of its October 2008 Web Server Survey.
This month's survey received responses from 182,226,259 sites, which amounts to an increase of 948,000 websites since last month.
Apache once again saw the largest growth, with an increase of 463,000 websites since September.
ThePlanet.com gains 1.3 million sites this month, most of which are operating on Apache. This includes many large 'link farm' sites that contain .pl domains to generate search terms using pornographic phrases.
Google gains an additional 411,000 sites to bring its total to 10.5 million sites. The sites are hosted on its own webserver software, which also hosts its own services and user-generated applications and blogs.
Examples of server names include GFE/1.3, which is used by Google's Blogger service to publish third party blogs under the blogspot.com domain, and spreadsheets and other documents under docs.google.com.
Additionally, GWS-GRFE/0.50 runs Google Groups, gws is a simple, lowercase name used by Google's main search site at google.com and Google Image Search, and Google Frontend is used to run third party applications on Google App Engine and Google Mashups.
For a further breakdown of the number of websites found for major server vendors, visit here.
The September 2008 Web Server Survey revealed that the Web saw an increase of 4.5 million sites from the previous month, totaling 181,277,835 sites. More than three-quarters of these sites were using Apache to bring the total number of websites to more than 91 million.
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