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 -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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