Tech Readers » Internet http://www.techreaders.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:48:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Internet has over Half a Billion Websites http://www.techreaders.com/2011/10/internet-has-over-half-a-billion-websites/ http://www.techreaders.com/2011/10/internet-has-over-half-a-billion-websites/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:48:39 +0000 Mikey Mell http://www.techreaders.com/?p=12399 Read more »]]> Internet has become a great source of knowledge, fun and entertainment in recent few decades. The growing popularity of Internet has no doubt its share in increasing number of websites. The number of websites is growing day in and day out at a quick pace. According to Netcraft, there are over 504 million active hostnames, i.e. active and inactive websites, on Internet at the moment.

Market Share

The Internet has seen a growth of about 3.8% or 18 million hostnames over the month of September. The current standing of hostnames is measured to be 504.082.040 websites, reported Netcraft. In the race of web servers, Apache still leads with over 326 million hostnames under its belt followed by Microsoft and nginx respectively. Google holds the fourth spot in web server’s race. According to Netcraft, Apache gained over 10 million new hostnames, but also lost 86,000 active websites. This contributes to loss in market share of 1.09% in total compared to other web servers gaining new hostnames.

Apache at this time considered a home of about 99.9 million active websites on Internet.

Reports suggest that Microsoft is currently the home for more than 21.1 million websites and gained almost 600,000 new websites last month. As of October, a slight decline has been noticed in the Apache and Microsoft camp over the last month, i.e. compared to last month’s 68.88% share of Apache, it stands at 65.28%, while Microsoft currently has 15.20% of share compared to last month’s 15.38%.

Both nginx and Google see a rising market share for the month of October over last month. nginx added over 1.6 million active websites to bring its total to 19.1 million, while Google gained 138.8 million websites with an increase of 0.04% over the last month. Google is currently at fourth place with a total of 153.9 million active sites.

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]]> http://www.techreaders.com/2011/10/internet-has-over-half-a-billion-websites/feed/ 0 Internet Privacy Controls Challenge tech Industry http://www.techreaders.com/2011/08/internet-privacy-controls-challenge-tech-industry/ http://www.techreaders.com/2011/08/internet-privacy-controls-challenge-tech-industry/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:08:18 +0000 Zaheer http://www.techreaders.com/?p=10605 Read more »]]> The internet tech industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. The exponential growth numbers are primarily attributed to the popularity of social frontiers – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Google+ etc. The layman users, advertisers and publishers all have been able to draw value out of the overall business proposition. But at the end of the day the one too many instances of data or privacy invasion on these platforms have lead to the sour taste in the mouth of value based customers. The instances of social profile hacks and information leakage in public domain are rising by the day.

Internet Privacy Controls

In fact Facebook’s privacy policy is still under fire from the tech analysts. The profile hacking attempts are made too often over Facebook and one has to meticulously set the privacy policies while setting up their Facebook accounts. The recent social media entrant – Google+ handles privacy in a better manner but in case you have made certain provocative pictures on Picasa web album as public then you might end up being in a spot of bother from the social circle.

The service providers are yet not able to strike the perfect balance between online social networking and setting up the Privacy to custom level.

 

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