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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:33:37 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netcraft 'serve-ey'
Message-ID:  <20000913233337.S6767@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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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.

Tony.
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