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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> http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/130.html 2008-05-20T15:13:00-04:00 2008-05-20T15:13:00-04:00 GW_Staff

Los Angeles, CA &ndash; Hosting Controller ( hostingcontroller.com ) developer of Hosting Automation Solution today announced that it has launched a redesigned and improved web

<p>Los Angeles, CA &ndash; Hosting Controller ( hostingcontroller.com ) developer of Hosting Automation Solution today announced that it has launched a redesigned and improved web site with a revitalized design and a user-friendly interface giving it a fabulous new look.</p><p>Easier to navigate and faster to access, the revamped site has a more interactive home page and modernized look, intended to improve visitor&rsquo;s journey through the site. This new look and feel will encourage more people to stay longer on the site and ultimately increase revenue and sales, says the company. </p><p>&ldquo;This redesign is a natural move for a company that is planning to celebrate its 10th birthday in August,&quot; says Syed Nauman Hashmi, CEO of Hosting Controller. &quot;We have now got ten year&rsquo;s development experience under our belt; we have listened to what our customers have said about the site and redesigned it to communicate our quality products to all our markets.&quot;</p><p>The launch was timed to occur just days before unveiling the full support of MS-Exchange, which will offer hosted email on exchange servers in load balanced manner and provide tools to manage all tasks through single login.<br />In addition to the general Web site available to the visitors, the site includes members-only sections, which provide product downloads, online ticket submission, knowledgebase articles and forums.</p><p>About Hosting Controller<br />HC is a web hosting automation solution with blend of cutting edge technology and advanced hosting features which empowers web hosts with control and server management capability that&rsquo;s never experienced before. It is an ideal application to diversify web hosting servers in cluster environment and one of the most user-friendly and easy-to-use application providing most advanced features and highly demanded services. HC manages cluster of web servers both Windows &amp; Linux and exposes a centralized interface posing as single virtual entity. With provision of backup &amp; restoration mechanism, dozens of Click &amp; Install Apps, free language packs &amp; free tech support for life, HC is destined to save customers their time &amp; money.<br />For more information about Hosting Controller, visit the website at: <a href="http://hostingcontroller.com/">http://HostingController.com</a> or call +1 (213) 341 1419.</p> <a href="http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/130.html">http://www.gawkwire.com/web_hosting/130.html</a>