Re: PHP usage stats

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > At 10:02 AM -0500 2/9/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Perhaps a better question then might be how many IIS servers are there >>> >>> out there compared to Apache. Apache servers uniformly support PHP, but >>> I think only IIS servers support ASP (I could be wrong). >> >> We're running PHP under IIS where I currently work. For that matter, >> I'm pretty sure the headers spit out that both ASP.NET and PHP are >> supported on these machines, even though we're not currently using >> ASP.NET. > > So using IIS v Apache is not a good measure for trying to determine php and > asp numbers, right? > > Cheers, > > tedd Probably not. For that matter, ColdFusion under both IIS and Apache on either Windows or Linux (though the only couple installations I've seen have been on Windows/IIS). You could get a reasonable ballpark from something like netcraft, but I think Stuart is right on the money when it comes to the problems you'll have with margin of error. For that matter, I wonder how useful some of the newer smashups I've seen like builtwith.com really can be, if sites are configured to hide the headers that identify the server software and/or supported languages. Andrew