[ILUG] [OT] web design companies

[John McCormac]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, nils wrote:

> howdy,
> Can anyone answer me this question.
> Why do the fast majority of Irish web design companies always use IIS.
> I have noticed that huge number of .ie domains are hosted on IIS, I
> don't have the stats to back it up but every site bar a few that i stuck
> into netcraft seem to be running IIS, Is this the norm for ireland and
> its web design companies.

Unlike netcraft, I do have the stats for every .ie domain/website. :) A
quick check on .ie websites running Apache puts the figure at 19787 as
opposed to Microsoft IIS at 9944. Those figures are for 22/10/2004. The
general trend for Irish hosting is away from IIS solutions.

Regards...jmcc