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The total number of sites has increased by 3.9 million this month, with the largest gain being seen at ThePlanet.com, where 632,000 new sites maintain its position as the 6th largest hosting company in the world.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">In the <strong>June 2008</strong> survey&nbsp;Netcraft <a href="http://www.netcraft.com/">www.netcraft.com</a>&nbsp;received responses from <strong>172,338,726</strong> sites.</span></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></span>&nbsp; <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">The total number of sites has increased by 3.9 million this month, with the largest gain being seen at <a href="http://theplanet.com/">ThePlanet.com</a>, where 632,000 new sites maintain its position as the 6th largest hosting company in the world. </span></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></span>&nbsp; <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">A large switch to the Bahamas was seen at <a href="http://www.securehost.com/">Secure Hosting Limited</a>, where 1.2 million sites were gained from Nameview Inc. The offshore hosting company offers web hosting and dedicated servers from its data centres located in the Bahamas and Jamaica, and even provides <a href="http://www.securehost.com/dual-homed-hosting.php">dual-homed hosting</a> for a 100% uptime guarantee. </span></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></span>&nbsp; <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Most of the new sites at Secure Hosting Limited were using the <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/">Lighttpd</a> web server both before and after the switch, so Lighttpd's market share remains fairly static this month. Microsoft's IIS web server grows by 2 million sites, boosting market share by 0.36%, but Apache remains in the lead with a total of 49.1%. </span></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></span>&nbsp; <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">LiteSpeed loses more than 600 thousand sites during this survey, while nginx gains more than a million sites; more than doubling in numbers. The WordPress blogging system recently <a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/">converted</a> all of its load balancers to nginx, using the <a href="http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule">upstream hash module</a> to serve 8-9 thousand requests per second. Netcraft's <a href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.wordpress.com">site report</a> shows the main WordPress site switching from LiteSpeed to nginx in April. <a href="http://nginx.net/">nginx</a> is a web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"></span></p><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">To view Detailed Stats, please visit <a href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/06/22/june_2008_web_server_survey.html">http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/06/22/june_2008_web_server_survey.html</a>&nbsp;</span> <a href="http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/netcraft_website_survey_june.html">http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/netcraft_website_survey_june.html</a>