been favoured by shared hosting providers, loses. In this context
Sun's purchase of Cobalt ranks as an extremely sensible move, though
it may become very hard for Cobalt to continue to envangelise the
Linux environment with Sun as a parent company.
Equifax goes past 1000 SSL sites
When [17]Verisign bought [18]Thawte shortly before last Christmas it
gained such a dominating position in the SSL certificate market that
many wondered whether anyone would attempt to challenge its position,
given that it held in excess of 99% of the issued SSL server
certificates. [19]Equifax has risen to the challenge, and has adopted
a similar strategy to that orginally proven by Thawte, making sure
that it is by far the cheapest provider in the market. During the last
year it has sold server certificates as cheaply as 5 per site, and
our SSL Survey found more than 1000 sites using Equifax certificates
this month, giving it around a 1% share. of the internet SSL
certificate market. Verisign businesses still hold 98%, however.
Dogfood
HotMail
We were premature with last month's comment to the effect that Windows
2000 had replaced FreeBSD at HotMail. Markus Senoner was first to
point out that although [20]www.hotmail.com is indeed running Windows
2000, several of the other HotMail [21]front end servers are still
running FreeBSD.
amazon.com adopts Linux ...
Also last month we pointed out that [22]www.amazon.com was serving a
"powered by HP" logo from a Digital Unix machine. This month Amazon
has introduced Linux into its load balanced pool. Over the last week,
some 43% of requests have been served from Linux.
... but andover.net prefers Solaris
One of the most frequently queried hosts of late on our server query
form recently has been [23]www.andover.net Andover owns the Linux news
site [24]www.slashdot.org and is itself a subsiduary of leading Linux
hardware vendor [25]www.valinux.com so people are often surprised to
see it running Solaris.
References
1. http://www.netzero.com/
2. http://www.zeus.com/
3. http://www.mydomain.com/
4. http://www.uu.net/
5. http://www.psi.com/
6. http://www.exodus.net/
7. http://www.rackspace.com/
8. http://www.dn.net/
9. http://www.interland.net/
10. http://www.interliant.net/
11. http://www.dialtoneinternet.net/
12. http://www.crystaltech.com/
13. http://www.dellhost.com/
14. http://search.ft.com/search/multi/globalarchive.jsp?docId=000918006520&query=netcraft&resultsShown=20&resultsToRequest=100
15. https://order.dellhost.com/order.htm
16. http://www.cobalt.com/
17. http://www.verisign.com/
18. http://www.thawte.com/
19. http://www.equifax.com/
20. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com
21. http://www.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+ends+with&host=hotmail.com&lookup=Wait..&position=limited
22. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.amazon.com
23. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.andover.net
24. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.slashdot.org
25. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.valinux.com
