In the September 2014 survey we received responses from 1,022,954,603 sites — nearly 31 million more than last month. More than a billion websites This is the first time the survey has exceeded a billion websites, a milestone achievement that was unimaginable two decades ago. Netcraft’s first ever survey was carried out over 19 years […]
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In the July 2014 survey we received responses from 996,106,380 sites. Microsoft gained 22 million sites this month, helping to increase its market share by 1.18 percentage points. Combined with a 1.78 point loss in Apache’s market share, Microsoft is now the new market leader with a 37.5% share of all sites. In the early […]
Microsoft neck and neck with Amazon in Windows hosting
Microsoft has edged ahead of Amazon to become the largest hosting company as measured by the number of web-facing Windows computers. The pair have been neck and neck for almost nine months: Microsoft now has 23,400 web-facing Windows computers against Amazon’s 22,600. Barring companies with large connectivity aspects to their businesses — including China Telecom, […]
China, the world’s largest trading nation in 2012, has long been a desirable location for outsourcing labour and services, even within the technology and IT sector where it is not far behind India. The growth of cloud computing providers in Europe and the United States — particularly Amazon and DigitalOcean — may foretell cloud computing […]