From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 13 16:35:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667BF37B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13ZM26-000Jyy-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:33:38 +0000 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:33:37 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netcraft 'serve-ey' Message-ID: <20000913233337.S6767@hand.dotat.at> References: <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick 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. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message