"The number of Apache sites found by this months survey
actually fell in absolute numbers as well as percentages, primarily
as a result a routing problem in Germany causing around a 5-10%
reduction in sites responding in that country, and more significant
losses of mass shared hosting sites at Exodus, KPNQwest, and Bell
South.
Emphasizing the hard times in the mass hosting industry,
Microsoft's significant loss of active sites is primarily
attributable to an adjustment of the business model at a large
hoster of free shared sites homestead.com. which this month revoked
access to many of their users free sites until they pay."
