(Dec 3) Regressions were introduced in the last Firefox update.
In the December 2012 survey we received responses from 633,706,564 sites – an increase of over 8 million since November.
Microsoft IIS experienced the largest gain this month, with the movement of an advertising network of 4.7M Apache hostnames to IIS 7.5 contributing to an overall 8.2M increase – their largest in over a year. As a result of the switch, Apache saw an equivalent loss, reducing their market share by 1.53 percentage points. Despite Apache’s continuing downward trend over the last few months, they still hold on to more than half of the market (55.70%). Strong growth was also experienced by nginx this month, with a gain of 2M hostnames resulting in another increase to its market share.
nginx also further increased its market share within the million busiest sites, which now stands at 12.44%, as did Microsoft, which remains slightly ahead with a 13.22% share. While overall the survey sees IIS/6.0 as the most popular version of Microsoft’s web server software, with a 41 percentage point lead over other versions, within the million busiest sites IIS/7.5 looks set to soon overtake it. IIS/7.5 is now used to serve 40% of IIS websites within the top million, just 4.8k and 4 percentage points behind IIS/6.0.
Linux Rootkit Found Infecting Webservers with iFrame Injection
A new rootkit, which can infect web servers running on 64-bit GNU/Linux, has been discovered
which attacks web surfers with drive-by-downloads. The malware works by injecting an iFrame
directly into the outgoing TCP packets of the infected machine, allowing it to infect all web
traffic from the server. It was first discovered on a server running nginx, however it does not appear to be targeting nginx specifically.
ICANN Early Warnings Filed
More than half of the sites found by Netcraft’s survey use the .com top-level domain, but ICANN is in the process of creating additional TLDs. On 20 November 2012, the Governmental Advisory Committee of
ICANN filed 242
Early Warnings on individual applications for new top-level domains. These warnings are notices rather than formal objections, and do not directly lead to a process that can result in an application being rejected; however, they are indicative of likely formal objections later on in the application process. Most of the warnings that have been issued consist of "requests for information, or requests for clarity on certain aspects of an application".
Prominent among the list of Early Warnings is Amazon EU, which applied for .app, .book, .cloud, .game, .mail, .map, .mobile, .movie, .music, .news, .search, .shop, .show, .song, .store, .tunes, .video, plus several other unicode TLDs in other scripts and languages. Many of these TLDs have been described as generic terms that relate to broad market sectors, which could have a negative impact on competition if Amazon is to exclude other entities from using them.
India, Australia and the United States have each objected to .airforce, .army and .navy being applied for by United TLD Holdco Ltd. The United States simply claims that these strings are confusingly similar to the names of specific government agencies, while both India and Australia note that words associated with the armed forces are protected in national legislation, and the applied for TLDs could mislead users into thinking that a registrant is associated with these national armed forces.
India goes further to state that these applications have the potential to cause irreparable harm to the security and stability of the nation and suggests that the applicant should withdraw their application. The final rationale behind India’s warning makes its position clear: "Allowing sovereign functions in the exclusive hands of foreign corporations whose motivations are unknown, and whose jurisdictions are not accessible for national government should NOT be allowed to happen by ICANN."
Applicants who wish to continue with their applications are advised by the Early Warning document to notify the Governmental Advisory Committee of their intended actions and when these actions will be completed. However, ICANN will still continue to process applications which do not receive a response. Conversely, if an applicant decides to
withdraw their application, the applicant can receive a refund of up to 80% of the evaluation fee ($148,000).
Developer | November 2012 | Percent | December 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 357,865,215 | 57.23% | 352,951,511 | 55.70% | -1.53 |
Microsoft | 103,333,170 | 16.52% | 111,570,010 | 17.61% | 1.08 |
nginx | 74,437,764 | 11.90% | 76,460,756 | 12.07% | 0.16 |
21,090,410 | 3.37% | 21,870,614 | 3.45% | 0.08 |
Developer | November 2012 | Percent | December 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 104,040,006 | 55.66% | 103,128,107 | 55.47% | -0.19 |
nginx | 22,018,545 | 11.78% | 21,993,817 | 11.83% | 0.05 |
Microsoft | 21,554,022 | 11.53% | 21,224,672 | 11.42% | -0.12 |
14,845,775 | 7.94% | 14,837,660 | 7.98% | 0.04 |
For more information see Active Sites
Developer | November 2012 | Percent | December 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 591,188 | 59.49% | 586,594 | 59.04% | -0.45 |
Microsoft | 128,154 | 12.90% | 131,344 | 13.22% | 0.32 |
nginx | 121,475 | 12.22% | 123,593 | 12.44% | 0.22 |
21,589 | 2.17% | 20,700 | 2.08% | -0.09 |
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2012
Rank | Company site | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
1 | Datapipe | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.094 | 0.018 | 0.037 | 0.056 |
2 | Server Intellect | Windows Server 2008 | 0:00:00 | 0.010 | 0.012 | 0.064 | 0.142 | 0.337 |
3 | Pair Networks | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.254 | 0.083 | 0.169 | 0.507 |
4 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.017 | 0.419 | 0.067 | 0.552 | 0.697 |
5 | ServInt | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.021 | 0.041 | 0.053 | 0.092 | 0.169 |
6 | Kattare Internet Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.021 | 0.157 | 0.119 | 0.242 | 0.498 |
7 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.024 | 0.017 | 0.031 | 0.063 | 0.063 |
8 | GoDaddy.com Inc | Windows Server 2008 | 0:00:00 | 0.028 | 0.447 | 0.119 | 0.888 | 1.461 |
9 | INetU | Windows Server 2008 | 0:00:00 | 0.031 | 0.122 | 0.077 | 0.238 | 0.463 |
10 | www.hostway.ro | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.031 | 0.306 | 0.140 | 0.917 | 1.560 |
Unaffected by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Datapipe had the most reliable hosting company site in November. Webair, Logicworks, Serverstack, and INetU also had no outages in November despite their locations in the path of Sandy. In contrast to the problems with fuel supply at the beginning of the month, Logicworks CEO, Kenneth Ziegler, said "[Logicworks] were able to consistently deliver good news thanks to our partners receiving a predictable resupply of fuel for their generators": this story is repeated across many other successful hosting companies in the area.
Pair Networks’ site — located in Pittsburgh, at the periphery of the area affected by Sandy — came third in November. In common with Datapipe, Pair’s site is hosted on FreeBSD which is renowned for its reliability and is regularly seen in the top 10 table. ServInt was also on the edge of the area affected by the storm in Reston, Virginia and placed 5th in November, responding to all but six requests.
As one coast of the United States starts to pick up the pieces after a hurricane, another is battered by torrential rain and widespread flooding. The ‘Pineapple Express’ storm — so named because of its origins in the Pacific Ocean above Hawaii — has not been as damaging as Sandy: few hosting companies appear to have been affected by it at the time of writing this piece. Kattare, 6th in the table, is based in Corvallis, Oregon which is predicted to have minor flooding.
Server Intellect, hosted in Dallas away from the dramatic events on each coast, was placed 2nd, gaining 5 places from last month’s rank of 7. Server Intellect specializes in providing Windows-based hosting with data centers located in 3 cities spread across the United States: Washington D.C., Seattle, and Dallas.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.
The third release candidate for WordPress 3.5 is now available. We’ve made a number of changes over the last week since RC2 that we can’t wait to get into your hands. Hope you’re ready to do some testing!
- Final UI improvements for the new media manager, based on lots of great feedback.
- Show more information about uploading errors when they occur.
- When inserting an image into a post, don’t forget the alternative text.
- Fixes for the new admin button styles.
- Improvements for mobile devices, Internet Explorer, and right-to-left languages.
- Fix cookies for subdomain installs when multisite is installed in a subdirectory.
- Fix ms-files.php rewriting for very old multisite installs.
At this point, we only have a few minor issues left. If all goes well, you will see WordPress 3.5 very soon. If you run into any issues, please post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums.
If you’d like to know what to test, visit the About page ( → About in the toolbar) and check out the list of features. This is still development software, so your boss may get mad if you install this on a live site. To test WordPress 3.5, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).
Joomla Community Magazine | December 2012
The December issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
On Track with Joomla!, by Alice Grevet
Feature Stories
My Joomla Timeline, by Helvecio
A Bright Future, by Alice Grevet
The X Factor and Women in Joomla!, by Dianne Henning
Sitebuilders
Comparison of Popular Display Article Modules, by Denys Nosov
Breaking Down Barriers for Joomla! Users, by Eden Orion
Part 2 – Review 9 Premium Web Hosting Services to take a Joomla! Site Live, by Tuan Bui
Project News
Leadership Highlights – December 2012, by Alice Grevet
Help the Joomla Certification Program Come Alive! – A Call for Volunteers, by Sarah Watz
Administrators
A New Way to Protect and Accelerate Your Site, by Ofer Cohen
Developers
Automating Your Component Demo Site, by David Hurley
Did you know…?
Trick to Use “Same” Email Address on Multiple Joomla User Accounts, by Nicholas G. Antimisiaris
Events
Kevinjohn Gallagher at the JWC12: Blunt, but Kilted., by Robbie Adair
JUG Bay Area, California, USA, by Jennifer Gress
The Joomla! Haikus
Post your Haikus for December, by Dianne Henning
Community Choice Extensions
The First Community Choice Extensions Winners! – December 2012, by Dianne Henning
International Stories
Browse the international articles submitted this month.
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!