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The following features have been improved:
[*] (Linux only) Parallels Installer improvements. Parallels Installer can now retry downloading of yum packages if a download operation fails. The default number of retries is three. You can change it using the option --download-retry-count with the autoinstaller command-line utility or the DOWNLOAD_RETRY_COUNT parameter in the .autoinstallerrc file. (140750)
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Data transfers from Plesk failed if a source server had an APS application and an SSL certificate installed on the main domain. The following error was encountered: “Line 2519 error: Element ‘certificates’: This element is not expected.” (138313)
[-] (Linux only) Configuration generated successfully for domains with the frame forwarding hosting type which were not assigned any IP addresses. (72945)
[-] (Linux only) Newly created domains were not accessible if Panel installation was moved to a new directory with a symbolic link from the old installation’s location. (78435)
[-] Panel UI processed operations with the list of customers very slowly if at least one customer had a large number (more than a thousand) of subscriptions. (93163)
[-] After upgrading from Plesk 9.5.4, the turned off mail forwarding operation became active again. (100438)
[-] (Linux only) Plesk Mobile Manager for iPhone was unable to connect to Panel. (114780)
[-] (Linux only) When Migration & Transfer Manager was trying to download data from the source server, the transfer operation could fail with the message: “Error: pmm utility ‘migration_handler’ raised an exception. Error code is: 1” (140299)
[-] (Linux only) The domain command-line utility failed to enable the mail service for a domain if this domain had been created while no mail service had been installed in Panel. Panel issued the message: “PHP Fatal error”. (140833)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators could not adjust mail server settings in Administrator’s Panel after switching from Qmail to Postfix if short mail account names were allowed in Qmail settings. (140837)
[-] (Linux only) After upgrading to Panel 11.5, Panel failed to generate the Apache configuration files if the PHP setting max_execution_time was set to “0”. Panel raised the error: “Template_Exception: Syntax error on line 64”. (140853)
[-] (Linux only) The command-line utilities domain and subscription raised errors on attempts to obtain information about domains with hosting type “No hosting”. (140924)
[-] Subscriptions suspended due to traffic overuse were not automatically unsuspended at the beginning of the next month. (140939)
[-] Customers without subscriptions could not use the Panel’s built-in search. They encountered an “Internal error”. (140989)
[-] (Windows only) Panel displayed an unclear error message on the File Sharing page if the system user account was changed or removed by administrator in the operating system settings. (105470)
[-] (Windows only) The installation of the Formmail APS application failed with the error: “Error: Installation of formmail at http://example.com/formmail failed.” (132784)
[-] (Windows only) AWStats did not calculate web statistics for a domain with the WWW prefix and all the domain’s aliases. (140882)
[-] (Windows only) Certificate signing requests could not be generated properly via Plesk XML-RPC API. (140900)
[-] (Windows only) Customers were unable to retrieve a forgotten password from Panel if Panel was configured to work with Microsoft SQL Server. They encountered the “Operation failed” error. (141099)
In the August 2013 survey we received responses from 716,822,317 sites, an increase of 18 million. Based on the trends over the last six months, Netcraft expects to see 1 billion responsive sites within the next 18 months.
Apache lost a significant amount of market share this month, tumbling by 5.23 percentage points. Its market share now stands at 46.96%, the lowest since March 2009. This large change was caused by the loss of 28 million Apache sites, a large gain of 26 million sites powered by Microsoft IIS, plus other reasonably significant gains by nginx and Google. Google’s growth was primarily due to 3.1 million new sites using Google’s App Engine (appspot.com) infrastructure and 2.7 million new Blogger sites (blogspot.com).
The bulk of the changes in Apache and Microsoft web server market share this month can be attributed to a single hosting company: Go Daddy was previously hosting 25 million sites using Apache Traffic Server on Linux, but these are now served by Microsoft IIS 7.5. The machines still exhibit the TCP/IP characteristics of Linux, and are likely reverse proxies, each of which is serving an average of about 150 thousand sites. Apache Traffic Server first appeared at Go Daddy during Netcraft’s May survey. At the time, 75% of all sites hosted by Go Daddy were using ATS, which made Go Daddy responsible for hosting 99% of all ATS sites in the world.
Remarkably, this is the first time since December 2009 that Apache has not been used by more than half of the world’s websites. During that period, Apache’s market share peaked at 66% in July 2011, although its greatest ever market share was observed in November 2005, when it hit 71%.
Despite speculation that the recent PRISM revelations would result in a mass exodus from American data centers and web hosting companies, Netcraft has not yet seen any evidence of this. Within the most popular 10 thousand sites, Netcraft witnessed only 40 sites moving away from US-based hosting companies. Contrary to some people’s expectations, 47 sites moved to the US, which actually resulted in a net migration to the US.
This trend is also reflected by the entire web server survey, where a net sum of 270 thousand sites moved to the US from other countries (in total, 3.9 million sites moved to the US, while 3.6 million moved from the US). Germany was the most popular departure country, with nearly 1.2 million sites moving from German hosting companies. This was followed by Canada, where 803 thousand sites hopped across the border to the US.
| Developer | July 2013 | Percent | August 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 364,696,792 | 52.19% | 336,622,050 | 46.96% | -5.23 |
| Microsoft | 137,351,211 | 19.65% | 163,098,703 | 22.75% | 3.10 |
| nginx | 95,017,255 | 13.60% | 104,311,568 | 14.55% | 0.96 |
| 27,406,059 | 3.92% | 30,550,914 | 4.26% | 0.34 |
| Developer | July 2013 | Percent | August 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 103,062,175 | 54.54% | 100,900,152 | 53.62% | -0.92 |
| Microsoft | 20,682,219 | 10.94% | 22,167,582 | 11.78% | 0.84 |
| 18,483,652 | 9.78% | 20,833,163 | 11.07% | 1.29 | |
| nginx | 23,392,815 | 12.38% | 20,786,590 | 11.05% | -1.33 |
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| Developer | July 2013 | Percent | August 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 580,529 | 58.05% | 569,270 | 56.93% | -1.13 |
| nginx | 136,815 | 13.68% | 148,930 | 14.89% | 1.21 |
| Microsoft | 124,067 | 12.41% | 132,902 | 13.29% | 0.88 |
| 22,830 | 2.28% | 25,818 | 2.58% | 0.30 |