Chinese 'linkfarms' propel Microsoft to web server crown

Netcraft has updated its analysis of web server market share and found that Microsoft is now the world's dominant provider of such software, albeit with plenty of caveats. The traffic-watching firm says Apache is the leader in terms of active sites, with 91 million compared to Microsoft's 21 million. But Microsoft is all over …

[Destroy All Monsters]

Has Einstein been proved wrong? Iranian nuke next week? President in charge?

Will Redmond be able to resist?

Should this not be the headline?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Has Einstein been proved wrong? Iranian nuke next week? President in charge?

So presumably IIS scales better and or costs less for multiple host name sites at least.

Certainly we have had far less to do to maintain our webservers since moving to IIS. Far fewer security vulnerabilities to evaluate and patch than with a LAMP stack for sure, and far easier to manage.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Has Einstein been proved wrong? Iranian nuke next week? President in charge?

Yup, a roach motel is easy to maintain.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Has Einstein been proved wrong? Iranian nuke next week? President in charge?

So presumably IIS scales better and or costs less for multiple host name sites at least.

Why do you post as AC? Why not use an handle, it makes copying and pasting from your previous posts much easier.

Heck I'm a MS user, but use a Linux Web server. Anyone that thinks their chosen OS is the best for everything is seriously deluded.

[Charles Manning]

Where's Ballmer when you need him?

Link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm,

Link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm,

Link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm,

Link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm,

Link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm, link-farm,

<Sigh> I never thought I'd miss the old days...

[msknight]

Um...

“In the early days of the web, hostnames were a good indication of actively managed content providing information and services to the Internet community,” Netcraft writes. They're not so useful today, because hostnames are now used “

Am I missing something here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Um...

Am I missing something here?

Everything after those final opening quotation marks?

[msknight]

Re: Um...

I need more coffee ... thanks! In fact, I haven't had my first one today yet.

[Mage]

Deja Vu

Wasn't this the IIS news last month too?

So MS has the lead in Servers that only serve an advert for a domain name. Equivalent to a book publisher whose most sales are adverts on bus shelters?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Deja Vu

"So MS has the lead in Servers that only serve an advert for a domain name. Equivalent to a book publisher whose most sales are adverts on bus shelters?"

Everyone was perfectly happy with this being the primary measurement criteria until IIS took the lead!

[h4rm0ny]

I'm sure I read this before...

About a month or two ago?

[James 100]

"Hosting platform of choice for web-spammers!"

Not really an accolade anyone sane would brag about ...

I seem to recall MS were offering incentives to hosting companies to push IIS, too, which might help explain this: if running a link-farm allows you to exploit both Google (by generating spurious web traffic and thus ad hits) and Microsoft (getting you whatever their reward is for hosting X sites on their platform), I'm sure the unscrupulous would jump at the chance.

[James Pickett]

So MS is the favourite with cyber-squatters? I look forward to reading their spin on it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else wondering if perhaps the Chinese people involved went with an OS they knew because the license costs to them were the same anyway? The guy at the markets said the disk was all they needed for unlimited licenses.