What's in the Netcraft web server survey category "other"?

Turbocapitalist · 11-29-2020, 06:15 AM

Netcraft's October 2020 web server survey shows that for the market share among active sites, Apache2 is dropping noticeably, nginx is declining somewhat, and IIS is plummeting very much out of control.

The one category picking up the difference is that of "Other". Little information is given on the Netcraft page as to the composition of "Other". I presume it includes Flask and a few other similar methods. Any clue as to what technologies are encompassed by "Other" there? What additional tools are gaining popularity for HTTP / HTTPS services?

TenTenths · 12-01-2020, 05:35 AM

This might be a good kick-off point for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...erver_software

Turbocapitalist · 12-01-2020, 05:46 AM

Thanks. I've read about many of those, I just wondering what the actual composition of "Other" really is whether a hodgepodge of very many different packages or where one or two are beginning to stand out from the crowd. I guess maybe I could search Shodan for ports 80 and 443.

TenTenths · 12-01-2020, 06:03 AM

I'd assume that until something reaches a tipping point in terms of % it'll just fall in to the "Others" category for that type of reporting. Stick something up that reports to be "TurboCapitalistHTTPLiteOMGFast" and see if you can get yourself up in the next survey

boughtonp · 12-01-2020, 07:27 AM

It could also mark a trend of people masking what server is being used - i.e. Netcraft doesn't know what the server is.

Any such survey which provides neither raw data nor information on their methodology should be treated with suspicion.