Re: Re: Apache Webserver User Survey

On 6/21/05, Ian Holsman <kryton.survey@gmail.com> wrote: > These show that apache has 70% usage, but not why. > > The survey is aimed to find out: > - what people actually use (and how) Most people use Apache. How? To serve web pages most likely. There are quite a few new projects using the Apache portable runtime that do not necessarily serve up web pages however. > - what kind of things they would like to see In what respect? Performance? Price? > - and what they want improved I have no complaints. Apache serves web pages just fine for me. There may be some people who want to use Apache2 in threading mode. > and just because apache has a 70% market share today doesn't mean that > it will have it in a year from now. I suspect it will be 75% or possibly higher in the next year. But I make a living writing PHP, not looking into crystal balls, so I might be wrong. > just look at the netscape browser > for an example on how fast you can fall from being the #1 to #0. Right, but it was a commercial product that got the rug pulled out from underneath it by a free product, IE. Apache is already free, so IIS can't really do much harm there. Lighttpd may be one to watch however: http://www.lighttpd.net/ -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer MySQL Core Certification http://destiney.com/