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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:29:47 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netcraft 'serve-ey'
Message-ID:  <20000914162946.B9335@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000913233337.S6767@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:33:37PM %2B0000
References:  <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000913233337.S6767@hand.dotat.at>

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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:33:37PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
| j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
| >
| >Does anyone know if the netcraft survey is accurate? I recently read
| >a comment that alleged it was not, and that (surprise) NT and Solaris
| >were the dominant server OSs.
| 
| It is accurate in terms of what it measures, but what it measures is
| not necessarily what people think it measures. I.e. it counts virtual
| hosts and it's trivial to put thousands of virtual hosts on a shitty
| 486. Netcraft have other surveys which you must pay for which include
| numbers that are more difficult to obtain, like the number of physical
| machines with a given web server or OS, but even then its hard to tell
| the difference between an E10000 and a Sparc 1.

So who can we believe when Netcraft says Unix/Apache dominates, while
entmag.com claims NT is the winner?  I'm beginning to think they are all
lying, and all those fortune 500 companies are running boa as their
webservers.  :)

What does the left half of this sig mean?

| en oeccget g mtcaa    f.a.n.finch
| v spdlkishrhtewe y    dot@dotat.at
| eatp o v eiti i d.    fanf@covalent.net

jcm
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"I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates


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