[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]
“Anyone who has followed the recent brouhaha over Web-server
market shares would know that the numbers can be twisted to serve
any number of agendas: the boys at ENT polled brochureware sites to
argue that Microsoft IIS was gaining in popularity in the Fortune
500, while Apache partisans pointed out that the exhaustive
Netcraft survey revealed the Apache Web server to be the most
popular Web server in the world–by far.”
“Many of you observing this spat from the sidelines pointed out
that perhaps the best test of a Web server is to poll the busiest
Web sites in the world to see what these sites were running. If a
Web server was powerful enough to serve the needs of these popular
sites, it would go a long way in establishing the credentials of
the server. Let’s be honest: if you’re looking for a Web server
on a site that generates a decent amount of traffic, it’s going to
be more important that Apache is the basis for the immensely
popular About.com, not that IIS redirects traffic on
www.kmart.com.“
“Using the Media Metrix Top 50 list, we checked out the 30 most
popular Web sites through Netcraft to see what the true workhorses
of the Web are running. While there are a few different sites that
rank sites differently (there’s a 100 Hot sites list that differs
greatly), Media Metrix is generally regarded as being somewhat
authoritative in the field in ranking the most popular Web
sites.”