Blogs Sell Servers

ROBERT SCOBLE cites Netcraft's conclusion concerning one of the effects of weblogs. "The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free Web sites." This is helping Microsoft, as the Netcraft survey documents.

"Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market, chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to  61.25%."

it bears noting that out of the additional 4.5m new IIS sites, 1.6m were parked domains at Go Daddy. These are empty spaces, doing nothing except adding to the total numbers. You can get a GoDaddy domain name for as low as $3. When you crank through all the impacts of parked names as Joseph Scott has done, the "real" number of blog domains is around 2.6m--still large but not as dramatic as an initial reading of the data suggest.

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Robert Scoble -- "Blogs having dramatic effect on server market share"
Netcraft -- "June 2006 Web Server Survey"

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