Blogs: M&M’s --- Part I - This stands for Marketing and Money
Blogs: Sometimes not making money is ok....
News: SaaS Software Licensing with Insight
News: Managed Email Security Services Trends with eleven and Variomedia
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web analytics firm Netcraft announced on Wednesday it has released the results of its November 2008 Web Server Survey.
According to the most recent survey, the web has seen a growth of almost three million sites, totaling 185,167,895 websites. In October, Netcraft received responses from 182,226,259 sites.
Once again, Apache led this month's growth, gaining 1.3 million sites and expanding its share to 93 million while Microsoft-IIS trailed close behind, seeing a growth of 1.1 million sites to reach 64 million. And Google, which only recently made its appearance on this survey, grew by 509,000 to total its share to nearly 11 million websites.
A notable difference Netcraft pointed out this month was the appearance of 221,000 sites hosted by Yahoo!, specifically running on the Yahoo! Traffic Server proxy. According to the analytics firm, last month's survey identified around 521 sites that claimed to be running on YTS, but it couldn't be confirmed.
Yahoo! is thought to use YTS to provide reverse proxy and connection management in its services, says Netcraft, but many of the company's sites were previously configured to omit the server header in their http responses.
YTS serves around 12 billion requests per day and was originally developed by Inktomi as a proxy cache for web traffic and streaming media, says the analytics firm. Inktomi has since been acquired by Yahoo!.
Some of the sites believed to run on YTS include Bix, delicious, Flickr and Yahoo Groups.
For a further breakdown of the number of websites found for major server vendors, visit here.
Although known for its monthly web server surveys and tracking down the most reliable hosting company websites every month, last week Netcraft released a dataset listing the hosting locations of the one million busiest websites on the web, as well as the web hosts that back these popular websites. The dataset will also be updated monthly and is available on a company license basis.
Read Back Issues of WHIR Magazine
October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
About This Issue | Read Digital Edition
July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
About This Issue | Read Digital Edition
May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
About This Issue | Read Digital Edition
Comment anonymously or log into your WHIR account
Logging in allows enhanced commenting features (such as external linking) in news, features, blogs and more.