Joomla Community Magazine | May 2013

May03
by Ike on May 3, 2013 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: CMS, Community, General News, Joomla, Releases

JCM May 2013

The May issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:

Editors Introduction

Introducing the JCM/ES, by Alice Grevet

Feature Stories

Interview with Victor Drover, Expert Behind Multilingual Joomla Magazine, by John Rampton
Interview with Mark Dexter About Joomla 3.1, by John Rampton

Events

Upcoming Joomla! Events, by Jacques Rentzke
You’ve Got a Friend…, by Dianne Henning

Project News

Leadership Highlights – May 2013, by Marijke Stuivenberg
New Home for the Vulnerable Extensions List, by Mandville

Designers

Beauty and the Beach, by Alice Grevet

Business Matters

Maximizing Your Blog’s ROI – JCM Whiteboard, by Luke Summerfield

Developers

Thinking Outside the Platform, by Chris Davenport
CiviCRM Interview with Paul Delbar, by Alice Grevet
Joomla! 3.0 Extension Development Series: Admin Configuration and Code Cleanup, by David Hurley |
Tools To Do LESS, by Peter Bui
Dead Links Walking, by Arlen Walker and Martin Raja
Help Wanted – Testing Joomla! Multi-Database Compatibility, by Michael Babker

The Joomla! Haikus

Post your Haikus for May, by Dianne Henning

On the Lighter Side

Are You Joomla?, by Helvecio da Silva

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!

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May 2013 Web Server Survey

May03
by Ike on May 3, 2013 at 11:19 am
Posted In: Web Server Survey

In the May 2013 survey we received responses from 672,837,096 sites, which is 23.8M more than last month.

Apache had the largest growth this month, gaining 28.3M websites and increasing its market share by 2.41 percentage points to 53.4%. The majority of this growth was attributable to Apache Traffic Server (ATS), which gained 28M websites and increased its market share from 0.03% to 4.2%. Nearly all of the Apache Traffic Server growth occurred at Go Daddy — 75% of websites hosted by Go Daddy now use ATS and Go Daddy now hosts 99% of all sites using this server software.

Originally created as a commercial product by Inktomi in 1997, Apache Traffic Server is an extensible multi-threaded event-driven caching proxy server which is claimed to scale well on modern multi-core systems. Yahoo! acquired Inktomi in 2005, and in November 2009, the project was donated to the Apache Software Foundation.

The vast majority of the ATS served websites at Go Daddy were previously served by Microsoft IIS, resulting in the rather noticeable loss of 3.26 percentage points of market share. Microsoft IIS’s market share is now 16.7%. Despite the loss at Go Daddy it gained more new sites than any competitor this month, with 43% of all new websites being served on Microsoft IIS, while accounting for only 30% of expired websites (this includes inactive blogs, as well as sites which no longer exist).

nginx reached a new milestone this month: it is now used by more than 100M websites, and within the Million Busiest Websites has overtaken Microsoft IIS to take second place with a market share of 13.5%. Overall, nginx’s market share now stands at 15.5%, just 1.2 percentage points behind Microsoft, helped by a growth of 8.3M sites this month.

The latest stable version, nginx 1.4.0, was released last week, integrating OCSP stapling and experimental SPDY draft 2 support. nginx is used extensively by the WordPress.com blog hosting service, whose owners – Automattic – sponsored development of the ngx_http_spdy_module. Development of OCSP stapling support was sponsored by Comodo, DigiCert, and GlobalSign.

Developer April 2013 Percent May 2013 Percent Change
Apache 331,112,893 51.01% 359,441,468 53.42% 2.41
Microsoft 129,516,421 19.95% 112,303,412 16.69% -3.26
nginx 96,115,847 14.81% 104,411,087 15.52% 0.71
Google 22,707,568 3.50% 23,029,260 3.42% -0.08

Developer April 2013 Percent May 2013 Percent Change
Apache 101,671,575 54.37% 102,659,819 55.07% 0.69
nginx 24,138,825 12.91% 24,746,458 13.27% 0.36
Microsoft 22,686,924 12.13% 20,664,767 11.08% -1.05
Google 15,178,507 8.12% 14,946,935 8.02% -0.10

For more information see Active Sites

Developer April 2013 Percent May 2013 Percent Change
Apache 581,497 58.15% 573,985 57.40% -0.75
nginx 129,561 12.96% 135,445 13.54% 0.59
Microsoft 136,552 13.66% 123,487 12.35% -1.31
Google 18,387 1.84% 18,721 1.87% 0.03
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Debian: 2665-1: strongswan: authentication bypass

May02
by Ike on May 2, 2013 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Other

(Apr 30) Kevin Wojtysiak discovered a vulnerability in strongSwan, an IPsec based VPN solution. When using the openssl plugin for ECDSA based authentication, an empty, zeroed [More…]

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11.34 EOL, 6 Month Notice

May02
by Ike on May 2, 2013 at 1:04 am
Posted In: Community, cPanel, EndofLife, EOL, Hosting, News

cPanel & WHM 11.34 reaches End Of Life October 15, 2013. That means there are only 6 months left in the life cycle.

In accordance with our End of Life Policy [http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/InstallationGuide/LongTermSupport], cPanel & WHM software release 11.34 will continue functioning on servers after reaching end of life. No further updates, including security fixes, or installations will be provided for 11.34 after the end of life date.

All customers currently using cPanel & WHM software release 11.34 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to cPanel & WHM software release 11.36 (EOL Date: March 2014). If you desire assistance with your migration plans, please contact our technical support team at https://tickets.cpanel.net/submit/. Our professional staff will help with recommendations, migration assistance and more.

A PGP Signed Version is also available

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in April 2013

May01
by Ike on May 1, 2013 at 7:00 am
Posted In: Hosting, Performance
Rank Company site OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.106 0.062 0.124 0.267
2 INetU Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.000 0.125 0.073 0.236 0.454
3 iWeb Linux 0:00:00 0.003 0.127 0.071 0.142 0.142
4 Server Intellect Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.003 0.074 0.092 0.185 0.464
5 Midphase Linux 0:00:00 0.003 0.215 0.109 0.222 0.338
6 Qube Managed Services Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.100 0.046 0.093 0.093
7 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.266 0.071 0.143 0.143
8 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.252 0.074 0.145 0.151
9 Datapipe FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.009 0.068 0.016 0.032 0.049
10 Pair Networks FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.016 0.231 0.077 0.157 0.486

See full table

Swishmail had the most reliable hosting company site in April 2013, with no failed requests. Swishmail has a presence in three New York data centres which proved to be resilient when Swishmail stayed online in October whilst being hit by Hurricane Sandy, despite New York being in the centre of much of the damage. Swishmail offers a variety of managed web hosting plans in addition to its core service of enterprise-grade email hosting. Swishmail has been monitored by Netcraft since April 2007.

In second place is INetU which also had no failed requests, but it missed the top spot by just 11ms due to using the average connect time as the tie-breaker. INetU offers dedicated managed hosting services and cloud hosting services from ten data centres in the US and Europe including a new data centre in Seattle. Netcraft has been monitoring INetU since June 2003.

iWeb is in third place again following last month’s success, it narrowly missed second place by having a single failed request. iWeb is based in Montréal where it has four data centres.

Newcomers Bigstep and Midphase have made their debut top 10 entries, after being monitored for one month and six months respectively. Hyve placed 8th this month, its third appearance since Netcraft began monitoring it in November having maintained 100% uptime over 5 months.

Swishmail, April’s most reliable hosting company, runs its site on FreeBSD. Two other sites in this month’s top ten are running FreeBSD – Datapipe, which was top last month and has an impressive 100% uptime over 7 years, and Pair Networks. Both INetU in second place, and Server Intellect in fourth place, are running Windows Server 2008. The remaining five – including iWeb in third place – use Linux.

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.

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