Parallels Plesk 10.4.4 MU#16

Feb10
by Ike on February 10, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Posted In: Plesk, Releases

Components update:
[+] (Windows only) PHP has been upgraded to version 5.3.10
[+] (Windows only) phpMyAdmin has been upgraded to version 3.4.9

The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] /usr/local/psa/bin/repair -r throwing error "Argument 1 passed to Service_Dns_Zone::__construct() must be an instance of DNSZone, instance of Db_Table_Row given"
[-] Messed up credit card types at edit billing account page
[-] /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras fails with error while loading shared libraries on CloudLinux 6
[-] Cannot create subdomain for domain with existing alias
[-] (Linux only) Fix of permissions on folder defined in session.save_path of php.ini
[-] (Windows only) PHP warning when update php_version through CLI
[-] Mailman’s apache template has no SSLCertificateFile and SSLCACertificateFile which leads to broken apache configuration.
[-] Migration to a target with openSuSE 11.3 failed with "Unable to create dump" error
[-] Fixed XSS vulnerability in Horde.

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2012

Feb07
by Ike on February 7, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Performance, security
Rank Company site OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.004 0.100 0.073 0.147 0.330
2 INetU Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.007 0.063 0.045 0.172 0.314
3 Multacom FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.007 0.186 0.093 0.188 0.398
4 Server Intellect Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.007 0.074 0.093 0.189 0.471
5 iWeb Technologies Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.084 0.048 0.098 0.098
6 ServInt Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.287 0.078 0.158 0.291
7 XILO Communications Ltd. Linux 0:00:00 0.015 0.151 0.036 0.194 0.275
8 New York Internet FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.015 0.115 0.072 0.145 0.392
9 Pair Networks FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.015 0.232 0.076 0.155 0.534
10 Virtual Internet Linux 0:00:00 0.022 0.122 0.058 0.121 0.159

See full table

Top of the table this month is Swishmail, which offers a variety of managed web hosting plans in addition to their core service of enterprise-grade email hosting.

INetU is at second place this month, which offers dedicated managed hosting services from data centres with resilient networks, backup power, and strong physical and network security. INetU also offers compliance and consultancy services to customers around the world and has recently received PCI DSS certification for their cloud service.

In third place is the California-based Multacom, which provides web hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and managed services. Multacom’s data centre is in downtown Los Angeles and offers fibre-optic links to many other carrier buildings both in Los Angeles and worldwide.

Within the top 10, Linux and FreeBSD were used by 4 hosting companies each, and Microsoft was used by 2. For the first time since July 2010, Linux was not used by any of the hosting companies in the top 4.

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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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2012

Feb07
by Ike on February 7, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Performance, security
Rank Company site OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.004 0.100 0.073 0.147 0.330
2 INetU Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.007 0.063 0.045 0.172 0.314
3 Multacom FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.007 0.186 0.093 0.188 0.398
4 Server Intellect Windows Server 2008 0:00:00 0.007 0.074 0.093 0.189 0.471
5 iWeb Technologies Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.084 0.048 0.098 0.098
6 ServInt Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.287 0.078 0.158 0.291
7 XILO Communications Ltd. Linux 0:00:00 0.015 0.151 0.036 0.194 0.275
8 New York Internet FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.015 0.115 0.072 0.145 0.392
9 Pair Networks FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.015 0.232 0.076 0.155 0.534
10 Virtual Internet Linux 0:00:00 0.022 0.122 0.058 0.121 0.159

See full table

Top of the table this month is Swishmail, which offers a variety of managed web hosting plans in addition to their core service of enterprise-grade email hosting.

INetU is at second place this month, which offers dedicated managed hosting services from data centres with resilient networks, backup power, and strong physical and network security. INetU also offers compliance and consultancy services to customers around the world and has recently received PCI DSS certification for their cloud service.

In third place is the California-based Multacom, which provides web hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and managed services. Multacom’s data centre is in downtown Los Angeles and offers fibre-optic links to many other carrier buildings both in Los Angeles and worldwide.

Within the top 10, Linux and FreeBSD were used by 4 hosting companies each, and Microsoft was used by 2. For the first time since July 2010, Linux was not used by any of the hosting companies in the top 4.

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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February 2012 Web Server Survey

Feb07
by Ike on February 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Web Server Survey

In the February 2012 survey we received responses from 612,843,429 sites. Compared to January, this represents an increase of 30M hostnames or +5.2%.

nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month, gaining 0.27 percentage points. Apache did experience a growth of 19M hostnames, but its market share has remained static, while Microsoft and Google had a small drop in market share despite gaining 3.9M and 450K hostnames respectively.

Within the Million Busiest Sites nginx continued its steady growth; gaining just over 12K new sites. Apache saw the biggest loss this month with a drop of 18K hostnames.

The Resin application server has been experiencing strong growth over the past 12 months; seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M or 0.77% of the market in February 2012. Resin is a Java application server from Caucho which is used on a number of the Million Busiest Sites, including Bebo — now recovered from its outage last week.

Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012

Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - February 2012

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012

Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 378,267,399 64.91% 397,867,089 64.92% 0.01
Microsoft 84,288,985 14.46% 88,210,995 14.39% -0.07
nginx 56,087,776 9.63% 60,627,200 9.89% 0.27
Google 18,936,381 3.25% 19,394,196 3.16% -0.09

Totals for Active Sites Across All Domains
June 2000 – February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 105,684,049 57.93% 106,664,061 57.45% -0.48
nginx 22,221,514 12.18% 23,590,737 12.71% 0.53
Microsoft 22,142,114 12.14% 22,363,730 12.05% -0.09
Google 14,412,926 7.90% 14,316,485 7.71% -0.19

For more information see Active Sites

Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 – February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 640,547 64.36% 622,816 62.57% -1.80
Microsoft 149,209 14.99% 147,689 14.84% -0.16
nginx 84,541 8.49% 96,596 9.70% 1.21
Google 23,894 2.40% 30,229 3.04% 0.64

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February 2012 Web Server Survey

Feb07
by Ike on February 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Web Server Survey

In the February 2012 survey we received responses from 612,843,429 sites. Compared to January, this represents an increase of 30M hostnames or +5.2%.

nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month, gaining 0.27 percentage points. Apache did experience a growth of 19M hostnames, but its market share has remained static, while Microsoft and Google had a small drop in market share despite gaining 3.9M and 450K hostnames respectively.

Within the Million Busiest Sites nginx continued its steady growth; gaining just over 12K new sites. Apache saw the biggest loss this month with a drop of 18K hostnames.

The Resin application server has been experiencing strong growth over the past 12 months; seeing an almost tenfold growth from 480k hostnames in February 2011 to 4.7M or 0.77% of the market in February 2012. Resin is a Java application server from Caucho which is used on a number of the Million Busiest Sites, including Bebo — now recovered from its outage last week.

Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012

Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - February 2012

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
August 1995 – February 2012

Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 378,267,399 64.91% 397,867,089 64.92% 0.01
Microsoft 84,288,985 14.46% 88,210,995 14.39% -0.07
nginx 56,087,776 9.63% 60,627,200 9.89% 0.27
Google 18,936,381 3.25% 19,394,196 3.16% -0.09

Totals for Active Sites Across All Domains
June 2000 – February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 105,684,049 57.93% 106,664,061 57.45% -0.48
nginx 22,221,514 12.18% 23,590,737 12.71% 0.53
Microsoft 22,142,114 12.14% 22,363,730 12.05% -0.09
Google 14,412,926 7.90% 14,316,485 7.71% -0.19

For more information see Active Sites

Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 – February 2012

Developer January 2012 Percent February 2012 Percent Change
Apache 640,547 64.36% 622,816 62.57% -1.80
Microsoft 149,209 14.99% 147,689 14.84% -0.16
nginx 84,541 8.49% 96,596 9.70% 1.21
Google 23,894 2.40% 30,229 3.04% 0.64

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