Which is to say that GoDaddy hosts a lot of *parked* domains on IIS.
...which were previously served using Apache. None of these stats will ever be able to convey the usefulness of site content based upon web server software.
...or better yet, analyze each home page, if it has no links to other pages within the same web site assume it is a parked domain (or spam domain) and ignore it.
That's not necessarily a good metric either, as systems built for that amount of traffic are not necessarily indicative of what is suitable for the rest of us. That's sort of the formula 1 versus a regular driving vehicle problem.
It might be a good indication of what the mainstream hosts will be using in a couple of years though. As with your formula one analogy, (a subset of the) technology developed at the extreme high end is commoditised and trickles down.
But a spammer would use Linux instead of IIS because it's cheaper on the large scale, and spammers and scammers go for large scale because their success rate is low per CPU cycle.
Why would spammers care what is cheaper? What they're doing is already highly dubious, so chances are they will have no qualms about using warez and/or hacked servers.
Why would a spammer bother? You know what's cheaper than running their own machines? Using someone else's machine. Most spammers use botnets and such for everything - less likely to get caught, there's so many out there that prices are low and many ISPs don't do egress filtering properly so port 25 outgoing makes life simple.
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Which is to say that GoDaddy hosts a lot of *parked* domains on IIS.
...which were previously served using Apache. None of these stats will ever be able to convey the usefulness of site content based upon web server software.
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You could look at what the share is among the top N domains, for N=1000 or N=10,000 or whatever, at least as a sanity check.
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That's not necessarily a good metric either, as systems built for that amount of traffic are not necessarily indicative of what is suitable for the rest of us. That's sort of the formula 1 versus a regular driving vehicle problem.
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But a spammer would use Linux instead of IIS because it's cheaper on the large scale, and spammers and scammers go for large scale because their success rate is low per CPU cycle.
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Why would spammers care what is cheaper?
What they're doing is already highly dubious, so chances are they will have no qualms about using warez and/or hacked servers.
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In other words, IIS does nothing much better than Apache?