The Microsoft Web Platform/IIS team in Redmond has a little reason to cheer today…
Microsoft inked a deal with HSP Go Daddy that brought the entire domain system - more than 3.5 million hostnames - from a Linux platform to the Windows platform. In Netcraft's monthly data, Microsoft gained 4.7 percent share of the Web server market, while Apache lost 5.9 percent (full story).
Port80 Software will be updating our Web server surveys in the coming months for the Fortune 1000 (there is a new list for 2006 out now).
This news is both good and troubling from Port80’s point of view. Of course, we love to see an IIS win that is as dramatic as this one, and we look forward to seeing the transition to and impact of Windows for Go Daddy’s business. There is a dark side, however, to this news: One vendor makes a change, and 5% of the Internet swings from one technology to another?
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Port80 has griped about Netcraft’s numbers in the past, and this news brings into one reality into sharp relief: while their data can give us an indication of the size and technologies used to deliver the Internet, if parked domain names caused IIS to gain this much market share, it shows that Netcraft sampling is too heavily biased towards arbitrary domains -- and not to servers and traffic.
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Congrats to Microsoft and IIS on the Go Daddy win!
- Port80
P.S. Sorry we have been sloooooow on the blog posts – but our team has been busy getting new toys ready for everyone. More to come on IIS 7 as promised, and thanks again for reading, folks.