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Estimating the value of hosting companies by counting computers 22 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Is it possible to estimate the revenue of a hosting company based on its public presence — that is, is the number of websites it hosts directly proportional to its market value? By using the market ca...
August 2013 Web Server Survey 9 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
In the August 2013 survey we received responses from 716,822,317 sites, an increase of 18 million. Based on the trends over the last six months, Netcraft expects to see 1 billion responsive sites with...
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in July 2013 5 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.003 0.134 0.076 0.152 0.209 2 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.003 0....
Microsoft Achieves World Domination (in OCSP Stapling) 19 Jul 2013 | 06:30 pm
Certificate revocation checking is an essential part of any connection to an SSL site; without it, an attacker can impersonate an SSL site with a compromised certificate until it expires of its own ac...
July 2013 Web Server Survey 2 Jul 2013 | 08:54 pm
In the July 2013 survey we received responses from 698,823,509 sites, an increase of 25.8M. Apache and nginx, both open source web servers, have lost market share this month whilst Microsoft gained s...
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2013 1 Jul 2013 | 08:30 pm
Rank Performance Graph OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total 1 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.089 0.073 0.146 0.146 2 Codero Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.234 ...
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow 26 Jun 2013 | 12:00 am
Millions of websites and billions of people rely on SSL to protect the transmission of sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information with the expectation that ...
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean 13 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Cloud hosting startup DigitalOcean has grown extraordinarily over the past six months. In December 2012, DigitalOcean had just over 100 web-facing computers; in June 2013, Netcraft found more than 7,0...
Facebook Apps hosted by Heroku used for viral Twitter phishing attack 10 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Netcraft blocked a Twitter phishing site being served from multiple Facebook Applications on 6th June. Visitors to the Facebook applications were requested to enter their Twitter credentials in order ...
Phishing attack hosted on police site with an SSL certificate 6 Jun 2013 | 08:00 pm
The Malaysian government's Police Portal (Johor Contingent) is currently hosting a phishing attack against PayPal on its secure website https://www.polisjohor.gov.my (Site Report). Phishing sites usin...
