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Netcraft has issued an update to its regular rating of the world's most-used web servers and found two Chinese nginx forks on the rise. The usual suspects top the charts: Apache's out in front with 86,528,264 active sites, a 49.99 per cent market share. nginx's 27,855,455 users give it 16.09 per cent share. Microsoft and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    What would a web server be doing in my logs?

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    1. captain veg Silver badge
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      maybe some wood

      Some kind of spider in your wood shed?

      -A.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      No problem

      We just set our routers to not accept any traffic from any Chinese IP address. We also ban all Russian IP addresses. In our business, there's no reason we'd have legitimate traffic from those countries, and not accepting any connections saves a lot of work.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: No problem

        I'm so conditioned I can't tell if that's racist, sexist or eminently sensible. Maybe all three.

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        1. GrumpenKraut
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          Meh

          Re: No problem

          Just pragmatic, I guess. I had 99 per cent of net traffic (all attacks) coming from certain IP blocks. Many were in China. Blocked them.

          I am talking about a non-business, no ads site. Just Mathematics and open source software.

          Similarly for email: blocking a few subnets of very active and malicious spammers helped a lot.

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          1. MrTuK
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            Re: No problem

            "Similarly for email: blocking a few subnets of very active and malicious spammers helped a lot." was that Microsoft by any chance or Google !

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            1. GrumpenKraut
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              Re: No problem

              No (you guessed that). Apart from the big ones in other continents I recall one block (of a hoster) somewhere in eastern Europe, mostly for hammering my server with absolutely insane rogue crawling, as if a bunch of broken scripts were in endless loops.

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    3. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: anonymous coward

      "What would a web server be doing in my logs?"

      Think outbound firewall logs.

      C.

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  2. Charles Manning

    Apache is nowhere near the top

    Of all the web servers out there, the most common by far are the embedded web servers in printers, routers, ADSL modems,, etc.

    The typical western household has probably three or four of those without even realising it.

    Those run web servers such as lightttp, mongoose and such. There are billions of these.

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      Re: Apache is nowhere near the top

      That's why Netcraft uses the term "web-facing" rather than "deployed".

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