(Oct 2) Multiple security issues were fixed in the GNU C Library.
(Oct 2) QEMU could be made to crash or run programs.
The October issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
Get R3ADY!, by Alice Grevet
Feature Stories
Website Case Study: Russian TV Channel, by Vladimir
Interview: Robert Deutz – The First Joomla! World Conference!, by Dianne Henning
Interview: Paul Orwig on JDay Colombia, by Alice Grevet
Website Case Study: NexGen Music, by Sully Sullivan
Events
JoomlaDay Events in October 2012, by Jacques Rentzke
Joomla! Day Poland 2012, by Radek Suski
Project News
Leadership Highlights – October 2012, by Alice Grevet
Developers
Adding Interceptor Filters via Annotation in Joomla!, by Paul de Raaij
20 Suggestions for Better Style and Script Designing in Joomla! Extensions (Part 1), by Soheil Novinfard
Administrators
Simple Performance Guide, by Ofer Cohen
Business Matters
The Keys to Selling Event Sponsorships, by Luke Summerfield
Sitebuilders
Adding Cool Stuff to Search Results through Semantic HTML and other Tweaks, by Ruth Cheesley
Best Ukrainian sites made on Joomla CMS. Part 4, by Denys Nosov
Part 1 – Review 9 Free Web Hosting Services to Make Your Joomla! Site LIVE, by Tuan Bui
Google Panda & Penguin – How to Identify Problems and Recover Rankings, by Ruth Cheesley
Did you know…?
Joomla Forum User Webdongle reaches 20,000 Posts, by Kenneth Crowder
Book Reviews
Free Book “Joomla! 3 in 10 easy steps”, by Hagen Graf
Designers
Using a Joomla Template Framework to Design your Site, by Scott Greenwald
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code: the Future of the Languages Installer Tool, by Javier Gomez
The Joomla! Haikus
Post your Haikus for October, by Dianne Henning
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!
In theĀ October 2012 survey we received responses fromĀ 620,480,777 sites, an increase of 350K sites since last month’s survey.
In spite of this, all major web server vendors lost hostnames this month with the exception of Microsoft – gaining around 3.5M – with a 0.58% rise in market share. This continues Apache’s decline in market share, with a drop of 0.49 percentage points from last month.
In terms of active sites, all of the major vendors made losses. In terms of market share, both Microsoft and Apache made small gains, 0.5 percentage points for Apache compared with 0.1% for Microsoft.
In the top million busiest sites, nginx made modest gains in market share. Microsoft, Apache and Google all lost sites. This continues the downward trend on from last month for both Apache and Google, with Apache falling further back from the 60% threshold that it hit in August.
Although Apache dominates the overall market, where it is used by 58% of all websites, the secure server market paints a very different picture. Netcraft’s SSL Survey found 2.3 million distinct, valid third-party certificates being used by HTTPS websites in October. Apache and Microsoft are almost neck and neck with 41.6% and 40.8% of the secure market share respectively, with the latter being noticeably higher than Microsoft’s 15.7% share amongst HTTP sites.
Usage of nginx is also significantly different between the HTTPS and HTTP markets: although it is used by 11.9% of all sites in the Web Server Survey, it is used to serve only 2.3% of SSL certificates.
This month 516k hostnames moved from FC2 to Amazon, contributing to a net gain of 342k. FC2 is a provider of free ad-supported blogs and other web-based blogging tools. However, as many of these blogs are inactive, this change did not lead to an overall increase in the number of active sites hosted by Amazon.
Nasdaq has announced that it plans to make use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its new financial data management system, which retains data required for financial regulation. This can be seen as a sign that large organisations are becoming more willing to make use of third party cloud offerings to host their data systems, and that the benefits associated with cloud-based solutions (low cost and high scalability) are increasingly outweighing the risks (security and accountability concerns). This follows Amazon becoming the largest hosting location last month. The quantity of web-facing computers owned by Amazon increased a further 5% this month.


Developer | September 2012 | Percent | October 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 362,714,083 | 58.49% | 359,875,516 | 58.00% | -0.49 |
Microsoft | 97,368,803 | 15.70% | 101,005,285 | 16.28% | 0.58 |
nginx | 73,976,009 | 11.93% | 73,243,944 | 11.80% | -0.12 |
21,576,233 | 3.48% | 20,947,340 | 3.38% | -0.10 |

Developer | September 2012 | Percent | October 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 104,999,959 | 54.98% | 104,401,365 | 55.43% | 0.45 |
Microsoft | 23,421,605 | 12.26% | 23,288,406 | 12.36% | 0.10 |
nginx | 23,067,926 | 12.08% | 22,585,701 | 11.99% | -0.09 |
15,241,811 | 7.98% | 14,647,607 | 7.78% | -0.20 |
For more information see Active Sites

Developer | September 2012 | Percent | October 2012 | Percent | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apache | 596,589 | 59.98% | 594,091 | 59.76% | -0.22 |
Microsoft | 134,978 | 13.57% | 134,319 | 13.51% | -0.06 |
nginx | 112,991 | 11.36% | 116,652 | 11.73% | 0.37 |
26,117 | 2.63% | 24,047 | 2.42% | -0.21 |
Rank | Company site | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
1 | Qube Managed Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.003 | 0.196 | 0.096 | 0.194 | 0.194 |
2 | Hosting 4 Less | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.003 | 0.142 | 0.101 | 0.204 | 0.391 |
3 | Kattare Internet Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.186 | 0.064 | 0.129 | 0.263 |
4 | New York Internet | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.172 | 0.079 | 0.160 | 0.486 |
5 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.275 | 0.103 | 0.319 | 0.537 |
6 | Datapipe | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.100 | 0.016 | 0.032 | 0.048 |
7 | www.logicworks.net | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.199 | 0.082 | 0.473 | 0.585 |
8 | www.choopa.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.207 | 0.088 | 0.180 | 0.245 |
9 | ServInt | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.362 | 0.091 | 0.185 | 0.338 |
10 | www.netcetera.co.uk | Windows Server 2008 | 0:00:00 | 0.014 | 0.083 | 0.102 | 0.206 | 0.512 |
Qube Managed Services was the most reliable hosting company in September, responding to 99.997% of all requests throughout the month. The London-based company specialises in VMware cloud services, colocation, backups, and also offers PCI-DSS compliant hosting on both virtual and dedicated platforms. Qube also has infrastructure in Zurich and New York, and was also the most reliable hosting company during
August.
Hosting 4 Less was the second most reliable hosting company, responding to the same percentage of requests, but with a longer average connection time. Hosting 4 Less has been operating since 1998 and offers both dedicated and shared hosting on Linux or Windows platforms, all backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Linux was the most prevalent operating system amongst the 10 most reliable hosting companies in September; seven of these sites were hosted on Linux servers, including www.qubenet.net and www.hosting4less.com, while two used FreeBSD and one used Windows Server 2008.
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.