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Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Gentoo has become more popular than SuSE on web servers. It had less than half of SuSE's market share one year ago.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

The share of Red Hat among Linux distributions on web servers has dropped to 10%.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ubuntu is now used on 7% of all web servers, up from 5.5% one year ago.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-10-30T00:00:00Z

After a long period of decline, usage of Gentoo for web servers is rising again.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

30.1% of all Linux-based websites run one of the established content management systems, but only 9.8% of Windows-based sites.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-10T00:00:00Z

Most popular Linux distributions running on the servers of the top 1.000 websites:

1. Ubuntu, 2. Debian, 3. CentOS, 4. Red Hat

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

Changes in the usage of Linux distributions on web servers in the last year:
Debian-based (Debian, Ubuntu): +7.4%
Red Hat-based (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux): -6.0%

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-04-17T00:00:00Z

Scientific Linux is still a niche system on web servers, but it more than quadrupled in the last year.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2012-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ubuntu is now used on 6% of all web servers, up from 4% one year ago.

Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers

Matthias Gelbmann — 2012-01-09T00:00:00Z

Debian has surpassed CentOS to become the most popular Linux distribution on web servers.