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Microsoft's IIS Serves More High-Traffic Sites than Apache | |
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| Time: 07:13 EST/12:13 GMT | News Source: TechNewsWorld.com | Posted By: Joshua Baer | ||
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In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server. While the high-traffic site findings are likely to come under fire as a marketing move by or for Microsoft, Port80 officials denied the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was behind their company's survey. |
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:20:28 AM |
| Port80 is right. Apache is not a major player in this market. |
| #2 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at Thursday, February 05, 2004 01:00:55 PM |
| Hold on, Netcraft has a "survey bias toward large, virtual-hosting environments" because they poll all websites? I fail to see how a poll of all websites (including hosting providers) indicates a bias toward Apache. After all, IIS is perfectly capable of virtual hosting. |
| #3 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at Thursday, February 05, 2004 01:34:14 PM |
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40% vs. 43% doesn't seem like a big difference. It would be interesting to see what is considered "high" traffic and how the percentages would change as you went to lower and even higher trafficked sites.
For example, say "high traffic" is the top 15% of all web sites. What happens to the numbers at 12%,10%,5%... or even 20%... After all, if you consider big sites like yahoo, aol, google, ebay, and many others, only ebay and msn are running IIS. (Not all of the others are running Apache, but the others are all running Linux.) |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Thursday, February 05, 2004 04:22:13 PM |
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#2. LOL! :)
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| #5 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at Thursday, February 05, 2004 05:56:33 PM |
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Ha, ha, ha!!!
I was looking at this further and it's hilarious. Port80 posts their methodology here: http://www.port80software.com/surveys/hightrafficwebservers/ They only use the top 1000 sites (what is that .00001% of the web?). But it is fantastic when you look at it in detail: Of the top 30, 8 happen to be Microsoft properties (msn.com, microsoft.com, passport.com, go.com, passport.net, windowsmedia.com, msnbc.com, expedia.com), only 4 others use IIS (ebay, lycos, dell, and ask.com). These 12 sites received a total of 27,421,081,000 page views (according to Port80) whereas the top 3 non-IIS sites (#1 yahoo, #4 aol, and #5 google -- not necessarily Apache... just doing a comparison...) received 29,987,265,000 page views. So... of the top 30, only 12 are using IIS, only 4 of them are non-Microsoft sites, and all of their page views total less than 3 other sites. In this comparison, if the entire web consisted of 12 IIS sites and these 3 non-IIS sites, IIS would only account for 47.7% of page views, and non-IIS sites would represent 52.2% of page views. And that's looking at the top 30 of the top 1000. And Netcraft's surveys are flawed?!! Brother. This post was edited by sodajerk on Thursday, February 05, 2004 at 17:58. |
| #6 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at Friday, February 06, 2004 12:36:35 AM |
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#10 - IIS 6 IS more secure.
In fact, I would say that IIS 6 is both the fastest and most secure web server you can run. Not to mention the fact it's far more than just a web server... it is, in-fact, an application server. I have nothing but good things to say about IIS 6. IIS 5, on the other hand... well, just keep your patches up to date. |
| #7 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at Saturday, February 07, 2004 01:13:05 AM |
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#15 - don't know of any business selling a header-hiding product for Apache like you can buy for IIS...I wonder why?
Maybe that's because Apache is open source and you can just modify the source code and recompile. In fact, that's the only way I know of that you can change the headers at ALL in Apache. Oh, you say IIS can already send compressed content? Then what's this? First, there are many free compression packages available for IIS 5. Port80 makes their money off idiots who can't think to search Google for 5 minutes before dropping $300 on Port80's software. Second, IIS6 comes with a fully functional compression feature built in. It's fairly trivial to configure if you spend a few minutes reading documentation. Port80 tries to dupe people into buying a tool that enables it for you, along with "special" features, which are actually just more settings you could easily configure yourself. |
