Netcraft April 2006 Web Server Survey

April 12th, 2006 | Filed under Events, Tips.

I stumbled upon the Netcraft April 2006 Web Server Survey today. It answered a commonly asked question.

How many websites are there on the internet?
They say there are now more than 80 million web sites on the Internet, and the web has doubled in size in the past three years.

Another interesting observation is that this month displays the largest one-month swing in the history of the web server market.

Microsoft gains 4.7 percent share while Apache loses 5.9 percent. The shift is driven by changes at domain registrar Go Daddy, which has just migrated more than 3.5 million hostnames from Linux to Windows. Go Daddy, which had been the world’s largest Linux host, is now the world’s largest Windows Server 2003 host, as measured by hostnames. The company said it will shift a total of 4.4 million hostnames to Windows Server 2003.

I really wonder what made GoDaddy shift from Linux to Windows, but the reason must be reasonable enough.