July 2001 Netcraft Web Server Survey: IIS Gains on Apache

The Apache Web server goes down by more than 4 percentage points, while Microsoft IIS gains more than five percentage points.

         The July 2001 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;


                     http://www.netcraft.com/survey/

   
                                Top Developers                                 
                                                                               
             Developer June 2001 Percent July 2001 Percent Change              
             Apache     18466153   63.02  18382308   58.73  -4.29              
             Microsoft   5973654   20.39   8099757   25.88   5.49              
             iPlanet     1802041    6.15   1345566    4.30  -1.85              
             Zeus         810108    2.76    793587    2.54  -0.22              
                                                                               
                                 Active Sites                                  
                                                                               
             Developer June 2001 Percent July 2001 Percent Change              
             Apache      7346025   62.42   7314577   60.53  -1.89              
             Microsoft   3076623   26.14   3372341   27.91   1.77              
             iPlanet      273293    2.32    282517    2.34   0.02              
             Zeus         182735    1.55    184895    1.53  -0.02              
                                                                               
                                                                               
   
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   two large US installations converting to Windows 2000 from Solaris.
   
   The large free hosting company [1]Namezero, hosted on the Exodus
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