From:	 mhp@netcraft.com (Mike Prettejohn)
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: January 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey
Date:	 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:05:55 GMT



       The January 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out:


                      http://www.netcraft.com/survey/


                               Top Developers

        Developer December 2001 Percent January 2002 Percent Change
        Apache         20497607   56.50     20866868   56.87   0.37
        Microsoft      11156732   30.75     11097667   30.25  -0.50
        iPlanet         1302788    3.59      1318991    3.60   0.01
        Zeus             792530    2.18       792802    2.16  -0.02

                                Active Sites

        Developer December 2001 Percent January 2002 Percent Change
        Apache          8588323   63.34      8997645   63.69   0.35
        Microsoft       3609428   26.62      3683141   26.07  -0.55
        iPlanet          383078    2.83       422806    2.99   0.16
        Zeus             172352    1.27       171197    1.21  -0.06

  Around the Net

   This month sees only small changes in site numbers. The drop in sites
   last month is reversed, with numbers a little above November, but all
   three months have had around 36.5 million sites. Microsoft servers
   have seen a fall of around half a percentage point this month, but
   this does not seem especially significant following six months of
   increasing share.

  Two new gTLDs go live this month

   This month sees five of the the [2]seven new global top level domains
   live, resolving customer domain names. .name and .coop go live this
   month, and .museum is in demonstration operation until going fully
   operational July. The final two of the new crop, .aero and .pro, are
   at least some months away from going live. .info and .biz went live
   late last year, although not without [3]some operational difficulty
   and [4]legal fuss over pre-allocation policies.

   Some ccTLDs (country top level domains) that have a two level top
   structure can also get in on this act. Here in Britain the [5].me.uk
   second level domain was launched January 14th for individuals like
   [6]tonyblair.me.uk, one day ahead of the new gTLD .name with a similar
   international function, like [7]al.gore.name. The intention is to
   restrict .me.uk to the names of "natural persons", but that didn't
   stop the four-letter-words.me.uk going in the first few minutes after
   midnight!

   The little used [8].us domain will also be [9]opened up for more use
   later this year.

   These new top level domains do not appear to have gained a lot of mind
   share with the general public, despite both [10].info and [11].name
   registrars press releasing that they had 500,000 names registered
   about one month after going live. The new top level domains were
   [12]conceived in 2000 during the domain name land grab, but have been
   born in far harsher times, and it is not yet clear how well they will
   prosper.

  ASP.Net to launch February 13th

   Microsoft will shortly launch [13].Net, which arguably is the
   company's most important server product launch since Windows 2000. We
   currently find around 1,500 sites using .Net on the internet, with the
   userbase including Microsoft-owned sites, training companies, software
   consultancies, individual programmers experimenting with the
   technology, and traditional Microsoft enterprise partner early
   adopters such as Dell.

   Microsoft is in an extremely strong position to proceed with the
   launch. The most talked about [14]competitor is many months, if not
   years, away from shipping actual code; and it has established a much
   broader beach head of ASP and Commerce Server/SiteServer sites
   providing web services than it had at the time of the Windows 2000
   launch. Microsoft's most immediate challenge will be to encourage
   these sites to believe that they will be able to provide more
   sophisticated services using .Net.

  More bankruptcies this month

   This month saw the bankruptcy of [15]Global Crossing, with a thumping
   $12.4 billion in liabilities putting the previous large bankruptcies
   of [16]Exodus ($3.2 billion debt) and [17]PSInet ($2.6 billion debt)
   completely into the shade.

   Colocation company [18]Globix also failed earlier this month with $600
   million of [19]bondholder debt, while in the UK, [20]Energis, which
   has by no means been run recklessly, shocked investors and suppliers
   by announcing that it, too, is likely to breach banking covenants that
   were agreed only as recently as December.

   Customer behaviour at the companies falling into Chapter 11 has
   largely born out the conventional wisdom that a company has to be sold
   quickly once it goes bust before customers take their business
   elsewhere. PSI's leased line business declined quickly in the run up
   to their bankruptcy, with the number of MX hosts on the PSI network
   38.*.*.* falling from 9,939 in September 2000 to 6,179 in June 2001,
   while the number of sites hosted at [21]Exodus' networks fell sharply
   immediately before & during their Chapter 11 period. [22]General
   Electric for example, migrating to [23]IBM. as part of something of a
   flight to quality by enterprise customers.

  Covalent secure third fund funding

   Standing out from the crisis of confidence amongst investors and
   lenders in the Linux industry, Covalent, which provides Apache related
   products and services has secured an [24]investment of $18M from a
   consortium of well known venture capital firms.

   Covalent, originally set up as an ISP business by Apache co-founder
   Randy Terbush, position themselves as the market leader in [25]Apache
   support, in front of the much larger and much more diverse [26]Red
   Hat, and employ several of the Apache core team.

   Covalent's early development of an SSL implementation for Apache in
   the mid-1990's may have laid a foundation of customer contact with
   enterprise companies who were not afraid to pay for software and
   support, and our SSL survey finds around 2000 SSL sites using Covalent
   branded Apache SSL servers.

  Solaris 9 not for Intel

   Sun has [27]announced the the release of Solaris 9 later this year
   will not be supported on the Intel x86 architecture. Although it's
   tempting to suppose this is part of the [28]Sun/Intel spat over OSs
   for Intel's new IA64 architecture, in reality it is a retrenchment and
   cost cutting measure by Sun, with Graham Lovell, director of product
   marketing for Solaris at Sun [29]saying "We need to focus on immediate
   revenue where possible". Solaris on Intel is mostly used in education,
   and creates little revenue for Sun.

  Cobalt experiencing mixed fortunes

   Sun do supply an Intel x86 OS, namely Linux, on their Cobalt
   subsidiary's machines. Although numbers of ip addresses on Cobalt
   machines has increased over the last year, their share of the total
   number of sites running on Linux has fallen, almost relentlessly month
   on month. Some hosters, including leading dedicated server companies
   [30]Dialtone Internet and [31]rackspace.com have stopped offering
   Cobalt, and instead offer conventional Linux machines optionally with
   a third party GUI from a hosting automation company such as
   [32]Sphera, which recently [33]announced a strategic partnership with
   Microsoft and second round funding of $20M, or [34]Plesk.

   However, it is not yet a one way market. A fast growing hoster
   [35]Rackshack, a subsidiary of Texan ISP [36]Everyones Internet,
   recently [37]announced "the largest single purchase ever by an
   independent North American ISP from Cobalt" of almost 700 Cobalt RaQ
   servers.

References

   1. http://www.netcraft.com/survey/index-200007.html#active
   2. http://www.icann.org/tlds/
   3. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7385569.html
   4. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-274367.html
   5. http://www.nic.uk/meuk/
   6. http://www.netcraft.com/whats?site=www.tonyblair.me.uk
   7. http://www.netcraft.com/whats?site=www.al.gore.name
   8. http://www.nic.us/
   9. http://www.nic.us/faqs/index.html
  10. http://www.nic.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2001-10-23-01
  11. http://www.nic.biz/press/press_release/pr_archive_2000_2001/2001.12.13.html
  12. http://www.icann.org/tlds/new-tld-resolutions-16jul00.htm
  13. http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/
  14. http://www.projectliberty.org/
  15. http://news.com.com/2100-1033-824135.html
  16. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7309927.html
  17. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-6155076.html
  18. http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8478666-0.html
  19. http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8479723-0.html
  20. http://www.ftmarketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={2FEB7B34-C17C-4E81-8DC7-6D34EEB0E4D8}
  21. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.exodus.com
  22. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=on&mode_w=on&site=www.ge.com
  23. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=IBM-RSCH-NET1,129.41.0.0,129.41.255.255
  24. http://www.covalent.com/company/pressrelease.php?press_id=43
  25. http://www.covalent.com/company/clients.php
  26. http://www.redhat.com/
  27. http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/23598.html
  28. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/23710.html
  29. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0108sunintel.html
  30. http://www.dialtone.com/
  31. http://www.rackspace.com/
  32. http://www.sphera.com/
  33. http://www.sphera.com/news17.html
  34. http://www.plesk.com/
  35. http://www.rackshack.net/
  36. http://www.ev1.net/english/about/
  37. http://www.rackshack.net/aboutus/intro.asp


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