Blogs having dramatic effect on server market share

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Check out Netcraft's June 2006 Web Server Survey. Key things? Dramatic increase in Internet size. Oh, and Windows gained large share numbers too. Why? Blogs, the report says.

Key quotes?

"The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free Web sites."

"Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market, chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%."

Who knew that blogs would change marketshare numbers?

Bing: Dave Winer did. He told me they would someday.

I just spent an hour with the Sharepoint 2007 team and they've added blogging, Edit This Page, RSS, and Wikis to Sharepoint (very well, I might add). At the end of the video I had them thank Dave Winer (he was the first to show me EditThisPage and RSS, both of which were featuers in UserLand's Manila, which I used, and later joined the company to sell) and Ward Cunningham (inventor of the Wiki).

Those two guys have changed the world.

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  5. Dileepa: I guess I’m talking about Microsoft too much. That’s what happens when I get lazy (too much email to answer).

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  6. Dileepa: I guess I’m talking about Microsoft too much. That’s what happens when I get lazy (too much email to answer).

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  7. Nice use of the selective quoting. What you failed to note was that out of the additional 4.5 million new IIS sites 1.6 million were parked domains at Go Daddy doing nothing. This reduces the increase to 2.9 million (still a large number, but about 35% smaller). Then you add it the 6 hosting services that switched by 40k or more chips away by at least another 240k. This makes the new number around 2.6 million.

    So the approximate increase due to blogs (Germany in Japan hosting services mentioned in the article) is around 1.9 million. This is still a big number, but is less than 45% of the 4.5 million increase for this month.

    Reading your post you’d get the idea that virtually all of IIS increase in June was due to blogs. Netcraft indicated that less than 45% of the increase was due to blogs.

    I’m not disagreeing with the idea that the number of blogs will continue to grow and will have a huge impact on the Netcraft reports. I am disagreeing with the tone of your post that makes it sound like blogs were the only reason of the increase.

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  8. Nice use of the selective quoting. What you failed to note was that out of the additional 4.5 million new IIS sites 1.6 million were parked domains at Go Daddy doing nothing. This reduces the increase to 2.9 million (still a large number, but about 35% smaller). Then you add it the 6 hosting services that switched by 40k or more chips away by at least another 240k. This makes the new number around 2.6 million.

    So the approximate increase due to blogs (Germany in Japan hosting services mentioned in the article) is around 1.9 million. This is still a big number, but is less than 45% of the 4.5 million increase for this month.

    Reading your post you’d get the idea that virtually all of IIS increase in June was due to blogs. Netcraft indicated that less than 45% of the increase was due to blogs.

    I’m not disagreeing with the idea that the number of blogs will continue to grow and will have a huge impact on the Netcraft reports. I am disagreeing with the tone of your post that makes it sound like blogs were the only reason of the increase.

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  10. Do they give you daily blood transfusions of over-hype?

    Take raw stats, fudge meanings, use selective quotes, cull in irrelevant material, marry to a cause, claim all revolutionary and ‘world-changing’.

    Geesh, five million ways to analyze and interpret those naked statistics, and the blogs surmise is a more than half conjecture on their part, but then to spin-doctor up that, all as a IIS justification fest with the usual rotted-core Winer/Sharepoint worship? Is your brain orbiting Pluto?

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  11. Do they give you daily blood transfusions of over-hype?

    Take raw stats, fudge meanings, use selective quotes, cull in irrelevant material, marry to a cause, claim all revolutionary and ‘world-changing’.

    Geesh, five million ways to analyze and interpret those naked statistics, and the blogs surmise is a more than half conjecture on their part, but then to spin-doctor up that, all as a IIS justification fest with the usual rotted-core Winer/Sharepoint worship? Is your brain orbiting Pluto?

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  12. Looks like blogging has reduced everything to sound bites. Read the post above about how this “increase” is mostly bogus. But if it is on a blog it must be true, right?

    This is one of the prime reasons I’ve given up on reading blogs as people always have a political / business line they are pushing. Granted a lot of them, like this survey, are pretty easy to see through.

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  13. Looks like blogging has reduced everything to sound bites. Read the post above about how this “increase” is mostly bogus. But if it is on a blog it must be true, right?

    This is one of the prime reasons I’ve given up on reading blogs as people always have a political / business line they are pushing. Granted a lot of them, like this survey, are pretty easy to see through.

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  14. Is true, but the most of the bloggers are for EASY reading, not for a hard thinking process on our brains.. I salute the good bloggers like this one.

    Neal saferstein

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  15. Is true, but the most of the bloggers are for EASY reading, not for a hard thinking process on our brains.. I salute the good bloggers like this one.

    Neal saferstein

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  16. Blog and Chris: I linked to the original research so you can draw your own conclusions. These results match what we’re seeing internally here too. Maybe you missed the tens of millions of MSN Spaces that opened up in the past year. Or maybe you missed that MySpace is now the #2 Web site out there. Both of those run on IIS and are contributing to the growth in Web sites.

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  17. Blog and Chris: I linked to the original research so you can draw your own conclusions. These results match what we’re seeing internally here too. Maybe you missed the tens of millions of MSN Spaces that opened up in the past year. Or maybe you missed that MySpace is now the #2 Web site out there. Both of those run on IIS and are contributing to the growth in Web sites.

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  19. LOL @ the damage control by the anti-MS peanut gallery!

    You guys can try to downplay this all you want, but the fact remains, “Apache’s lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months.”

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  20. LOL @ the damage control by the anti-MS peanut gallery!

    You guys can try to downplay this all you want, but the fact remains, “Apache’s lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months.”

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  21. Call me crazy but I’d be more interested in how many of those servers on the respective technologies were actually being relied on to generate income for their respective owners. It’s all well and good that SOME growth MAY have POSSIBLY been due to blogging, but well… not sure that’s really all that mission critical. Tell me what the split is for mission critical applications. Then I’ll be impressed.

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  22. Call me crazy but I’d be more interested in how many of those servers on the respective technologies were actually being relied on to generate income for their respective owners. It’s all well and good that SOME growth MAY have POSSIBLY been due to blogging, but well… not sure that’s really all that mission critical. Tell me what the split is for mission critical applications. Then I’ll be impressed.

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  23. And Winer and Cunningham changing the world? Is hyperbole a requirement of your job? Show of hand of the 6+Billion people in the world… how many of you have even heard of Dave Winer or Ward Cunningham? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

    “Changed the world”….puh.leez!!!!! Maybe they’ve changed your microscopic echo chamber blogging geek world, but The World? Really? You REALLY believe they have CHANGED THE WORLD?

    The people in Iraq, China, Africa and the like will be happy to know their world is now changed thanks to these two guys.

    Are you speaking at the UN any time soon?

    Good God, man! Keep things in perspective will ya?

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  24. And Winer and Cunningham changing the world? Is hyperbole a requirement of your job? Show of hand of the 6+Billion people in the world… how many of you have even heard of Dave Winer or Ward Cunningham? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

    “Changed the world”….puh.leez!!!!! Maybe they’ve changed your microscopic echo chamber blogging geek world, but The World? Really? You REALLY believe they have CHANGED THE WORLD?

    The people in Iraq, China, Africa and the like will be happy to know their world is now changed thanks to these two guys.

    Are you speaking at the UN any time soon?

    Good God, man! Keep things in perspective will ya?

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  25. dmad: Go to the front of BBC.COM. See that RSS icon? Open the new Sharepoint. See the new “Edit this Page” icon?

    Yes, they changed the world. Deal with it.

    As for growth, you’re way off. What do you do by the way?

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  26. dmad: Go to the front of BBC.COM. See that RSS icon? Open the new Sharepoint. See the new “Edit this Page” icon?

    Yes, they changed the world. Deal with it.

    As for growth, you’re way off. What do you do by the way?

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  27. @14. There’s that reading problem again. I never said blogging WASN’T contributing to the growth. You’re the one making the direct leap, not me. And not the report.

    As for your BBC.COM example, that’s great. I’ll ask the question differently…How many of the 6+Billion people in the world have access to bbc.com. And if so, how has the RSS feed changed changed their lives? You believe what you want to believe. But, I do think you have to get a little perspective. For example, I don’t see how wiki’s or blog’s have gotten resulted in less violence in Iraq. I don’t see how wiki’s or blogs have changed China’s policies on free speech. In fact they may have made the govt more resistant. But, time will tell. It MAY have an impact. I’m willing to ultimately concede that.

    But I don’t see references to the random on line newspaper or reference to yet to be released software that has yet to have wide adoption even in its current state as being “world changing” examples. I realize that the world you live in is not what the rest of the world lives in, so I can see how you would think they have changed YOUR world. But, changign the world for the majority of the 6+Billion people on Earth. Not even close. I think The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been more world changing than this basic implementation of editing a web page. But, my standards might be lower than yours.

    I’m still awaiting the figures for mission critical (again, blogs are not mission critical) web sites running IIS vs other plaforms. If fine if you say you don’t have that data. I realize numbers don’t matter to you when it comes to making money.

    As for what I do? Not sure why that is relevant to this conversation or to the answer to my question. What I do, and how I make money are two different things. I don’t define myself by how I make money.

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  28. @14. There’s that reading problem again. I never said blogging WASN’T contributing to the growth. You’re the one making the direct leap, not me. And not the report.

    As for your BBC.COM example, that’s great. I’ll ask the question differently…How many of the 6+Billion people in the world have access to bbc.com. And if so, how has the RSS feed changed changed their lives? You believe what you want to believe. But, I do think you have to get a little perspective. For example, I don’t see how wiki’s or blog’s have gotten resulted in less violence in Iraq. I don’t see how wiki’s or blogs have changed China’s policies on free speech. In fact they may have made the govt more resistant. But, time will tell. It MAY have an impact. I’m willing to ultimately concede that.

    But I don’t see references to the random on line newspaper or reference to yet to be released software that has yet to have wide adoption even in its current state as being “world changing” examples. I realize that the world you live in is not what the rest of the world lives in, so I can see how you would think they have changed YOUR world. But, changign the world for the majority of the 6+Billion people on Earth. Not even close. I think The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been more world changing than this basic implementation of editing a web page. But, my standards might be lower than yours.

    I’m still awaiting the figures for mission critical (again, blogs are not mission critical) web sites running IIS vs other plaforms. If fine if you say you don’t have that data. I realize numbers don’t matter to you when it comes to making money.

    As for what I do? Not sure why that is relevant to this conversation or to the answer to my question. What I do, and how I make money are two different things. I don’t define myself by how I make money.

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  29. Would be interesting to know if the IIS growth is mostly due to blog hosting sites like MSN Spaces. Nearly everyone I know who runs their own blog on their own webserver runs LAMP.

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  30. Would be interesting to know if the IIS growth is mostly due to blog hosting sites like MSN Spaces. Nearly everyone I know who runs their own blog on their own webserver runs LAMP.

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  31. The windows increase was SOLEY due to GoDaddy moving the domain parking over to Windows Server and apache has regained most of the losses this month anyway.

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  32. The windows increase was SOLEY due to GoDaddy moving the domain parking over to Windows Server and apache has regained most of the losses this month anyway.

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  33. Ah yes, parked domains are such demanding applications for a web server.

    As for changing the world, everybody changes the world.

    Hey, I just changed it. Can’t you see it? You have to know where to look (like that BBC thing).

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  34. Ah yes, parked domains are such demanding applications for a web server.

    As for changing the world, everybody changes the world.

    Hey, I just changed it. Can’t you see it? You have to know where to look (like that BBC thing).

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