Collins Agbonghama, a web developer from Nigeria, Africa, shares how WordPress gives him a sustainable income and a better future.
In the December 2021 survey we received responses from 1,168,864,866 sites across 268,328,184 unique domains and 11,669,818 web-facing computers. This represents a loss of 6.53 million sites, but a gain of 1.30 million domains and 144,000 computers.
nginx lost a significant number of sites (-23.88 million) and domains (-8.54 million) this month, though it continues to hold the highest market share in both categories with 32.9% of sites and 26.7% of domains. nginx’s domain market share lead over Apache dropped significantly, falling from a 5.6 percentage point lead to a 2.6 percentage point lead. nginx also gained 81,100 web-facing computers this month, giving it 37.5% of market share in this category.
Apache also lost sites (-3.09 million) and domains (-446,000) this month, though it gained 5,700 web-facing computers. Apache continues to hold second place across all three key metrics.
The largest increase in both domains and hostnames was seen for “awselb”, used by Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing service, and accounts for the majority of the loss experienced by nginx. The change was as a result of GoDaddy’s URL redirector service, which allows domains registered with GoDaddy to be pointed at arbitrary URLs, being moved from their own hosting facilities to Amazon’s ELB service.
Many other web servers also saw reasonable growth in the number of sites this month, with OpenResty and Microsoft gaining 2.42 million and 2.15 million respectively, followed by LiteSpeed and Cloudflare with 1.76 million and 1.28 million. Fewer servers gained domains this month, though OpenResty gained a respectable 850,500 (+2.19%).
Cloudflare gained 2,431 sites in the million most popular sites, increasing its market share by 0.24 percentage points to 18.6%. Apache continues to maintain a slim lead over nginx, though both lost sites this month. Microsoft’s market share dropped, as it lost 4,119 sites this month taking it to 6.15% of the total and down from 6.89% at the start of the year.
A critical vulnerability dubbed “Log4Shell” was identified in the Java log4j logging library, and was publicly disclosed on 9th December. The vulnerability has impacted a broad range of organizations as the log4j library is widely used, and the flaw can be easily exploited to break into systems, steal data, and infect networks with malicious software.
Many widely-used web servers such as Tomcat and Jetty are written in Java but do not use the log4j library by default so are not directly affected by the issue. However, they can be configured to do so, and it is also possible that sites that use popular web servers written in other languages – Apache and nginx are written in C, for instance – may still use the vulnerable library at some level in their technology stack.
Several less well-known servers integrate the log4j library directly, such as IBM WebSphere. Several WebSphere components such as the Admin Console use the library and so are vulnerable to the issue, while applications served using WebSphere may be vulnerable if they use the library. IBM WebSphere is not widely used: this month Netcraft identified 3,778 sites using the server, which were hosted on 830 IP addresses. Amongst these, Netcraft found government and banking websites, though it is unknown whether these sites are vulnerable.
| Developer | November 2021 | Percent | December 2021 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | 408,226,319 | 34.73% | 384,347,394 | 32.88% | -1.85 |
| Apache | 286,494,600 | 24.37% | 283,409,491 | 24.25% | -0.13 |
| OpenResty | 76,480,927 | 6.51% | 78,902,138 | 6.75% | 0.24 |
| Cloudflare | 58,629,365 | 4.99% | 59,904,450 | 5.13% | 0.14 |
WordPress 5.9 Beta 4 released on 21 December 2021 and is available for testing.
In this last episode of 2021, Josepha Haden Chomphosy takes the time to appreciate those who make the WordPress project a success and offers a carol of thanks. Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to [email protected], either written or as a voice recording. Credits Editor: Dustin Hartzler Logo: Beatriz Fialho Production: Chloé Bringmann Song: […]
PostgreSQL remote access is highly desirable for many users. PostgreSQL is a relational database system that is state-of-the-art, enterprise-class, and open-source. It supports SQL and JSON querying which are relational and non-relational respectively. PostgreSQL will work on pretty much any platform’s operating system including MS Windows and various flavors of UNIX server, such as Linux. Many platforms also support PostgreSQL remote access. What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system that utilizes and adds to the SQL language. It offers numerous impressive capabilities to take the safe storage and scaling of complex data workloads in its stride.…
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Highlights and the official video for State of the Word 2021
We’ve reached the end of 2021, and it seems like just yesterday we were talking about omni-channel marketing and the massive evolutions that eCommerce saw in 2020. But now it’s time to recap what we’ve learned on Season 2 of Next Level Ops, as well as look towards what’s in store for 2022. To help us do that, we have Brian Richards, founder of WPSessions and organizer of WooSesh, the only WooCommerce-focused event. Brian has developed eCommerce sites, has been teaching WordPress for nearly 10 years, and now focuses on running WordPress and WooCommerce events. As a result, he has…
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On Friday, December 10, 2021, a vulnerability for Log4j was announced in CVE-2021-44228. Log4j is developed by the Apache Foundation and is widely used by both enterprise apps and cloud services. It was reported by Alibaba Cloud’s security team to Apache on November 24. They also revealed that CVE-2021-44228 impacts default configurations of multiple Apache frameworks, including Apache Struts2, Apache Solr, Apache Druid, Apache Flink, and others. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security …
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WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 is now available for testing. Help test to make the release as good as it can be.
The Plesk WordPress Toolkit 5.8 is now available. This release comes with the biggest game charger feature of the year – the Site Vulnerability Scan. Let’s have a look at why we’re so excited about this feature going forward: Site Vulnerability Scan WordPress Toolkit can now regularly scans active plugins, themes, and WordPress versions to identify known vulnerabilities, using information provided by our friendly partners at Patchstack. Before we go further into the details of this feature, let’s quickly go through some numbers to understand how much of a game changer this really is: First of all, WordPress is used…
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Optimizing your server enables you to enhance its speed and overall performance. Countless businesses use a variety of techniques to optimize their servers and ensure they meet their websites’ functionality, availability, and accessibility requirements. Server optimization has a direct impact on a website’s main functions, but how does it work? We’ll take an in-depth look at optimizing servers below, covering the benefits, key techniques, and essential server optimization tips to help you get started. Server Optimization Explained Server optimization encompasses a number of processes intended to boost a server’s application configuration, the efficiency of its data processing, its overall speed,…
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The Plesk WordPress Toolkit Feature Awards 2021 presents to you the best of the best, following yet another year full of exciting new features. With 2021 now slowly coming to an end, we take the time to look back and identify the features which stood out the most. In doing so, we are diving into the different corners which make Plesk WordPress Toolkit stand out among the best. Today we distinguish five categories of excellence to honor the brave and the bold. But first, let’s take a quick look at the top features which were added to our WordPress Toolkit…
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As 2021 draws to a close, Plesk is proud to share some of the top achievements and innovations that have been implemented in Obsidian in the past 12 months. So, without further ado, let’s look at Plesk Obsidian in 2021: Top Obsidian Features 2021: New Website Creation Workflow Revamped File Management Improved Monitoring Web-based SSH Terminal DNS Helper Mail Log Browser Resolvable Domains & Hostnames Website Card Improvements SSL It! Updates Up-to-date, Performant, & Stable Plesk New Website Creation Workflow In Plesk Obsidian 2021 releases, our team of tech geniuses have developed a new, more intuitive system for creating websites.…
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Can you help test the latest software version of WordPress? 5.9 Beta 2 was published on 7 December 2021, help find any bugs.
DevOps is an IT delivery method that brings development and operations departments closer together by combining individuals, tools, and working practices. With DevOps, teams boost the efficiency of applications and service development, and can cultivate a more responsive process in managing the IT infrastructure. They can also deploy IT products at a pace that aligns with today’s marketplace, and update them as required to maximize performance. DevOps plugs the gap between software development (Dev) and operations (Ops) in IT. Developing software involves creating code to power applications, and IT operations focuses on bringing those applications to end users with any…
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Servers play a vital role in your IT infrastructure. And it’s paramount that you monitor their uptime and general performance to keep that infrastructure at its best. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers could decide to look elsewhere if your web server experiences downtime, runs slowly, is prone to outages, or is hindered by any other performance problems. Worst of all, critical business data (e.g. client records, financial information) can be corrupted if an internal file server creates errors. Server monitoring enables you to watch over your systems and track numerous metrics that can make managing your IT operations easier. Generally, a server…
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Netcraft recently confirmed that a Bangladesh Army site was hosting an Outlook Web Access (OWA) web shell. Additionally, an OWA web shell was found on the Department of Arts and Culture site for the South-African Kwazulu-Natal province and an Iraqi government site was found to be hosting a PHP shell. Web shells are a common tool used by attackers to maintain control of a compromised web server, providing a web interface from which arbitrary commands can be executed on the server hosting the shell. OWA provides remote access to Microsoft Exchange mailboxes; since the disclosure of the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in March, Microsoft Exchange has become a popular target for cyberattacks.
Despite the holiday season being around the corner, the WordPress project didn’t slow down. In a recent episode of WP Briefing, Executive Director Josepha Haden shares the first thing she wants people to notice about WordPress, which is also the heart of this open source project: Now, the first thing I want people to see […]
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.463 | 0.008 | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| 2 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.190 | 0.063 | 0.126 | 0.126 |
| 3 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.291 | 0.064 | 0.127 | 0.127 |
| 4 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.128 | 0.068 | 0.137 | 0.137 |
| 5 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.189 | 0.072 | 0.144 | 0.144 |
| 6 | Swishmail | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.218 | 0.098 | 0.196 | 0.196 |
| 7 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.201 | 0.104 | 0.205 | 0.205 |
| 8 | Aruba | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.340 | 0.006 | 0.030 | 0.030 |
| 9 | New York Internet (NYI) | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.536 | 0.063 | 0.127 | 0.127 |
| 10 | krystal.uk | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.176 | 0.084 | 0.159 | 0.159 |
Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in November 2021, with an average connection time of just 8ms across the month and no failed requests. Rackspace has appeared in the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites every month of the past 12 months, and has taken the number one spot in five of those. Rackspace offers a wide variety of cloud hosting solutions from over 40 data centres across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Places two, three and four in November 2021 go to Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Hyve Managed Hosting respectively. All three of these hosting company sites had no failed requests and were competitive on average connection times, coming in at 63ms, 64ms and 68ms respectively.
Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania. CWCS Managed Hosting offer dedicated servers, cloud and VPS hosting, colocation services, domain names and email services from their seven data centres across the UK, USA and Canada. Hyve Managed Hosting offer cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.
Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in October, continuing the dominance of Linux. In ninth place, New York Internet (NYI) used FreeBSD.
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