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Epenis Node Race
Netcraft article showing DigitalOcean has grown from 138 servers in December to 7,134 now.
Hosting provider December 2012 June 2013 Growth Growth (%) Amazon 134,117 165,438 +31,321 +23.35% Alibaba 6,649 17,347 +10,699 +160.91% Hetzner 75,880 84,896 +9,016 +11.88% DigitalOcean 138 7,134 +6,996 +5084.64% OVH 90,305 96,558 +6,253 +6.92% Shore Network Tech (Linode) 54,051 57,701 +3,650 +6.75%
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/13/the-meteoric-rise-of-digitalocean.html
congratulations to @zagi but I'm still not going to forgive you for your brutal assault on the lovable pets.com mascot (yeah, the one below)
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wonders what CVPS has to do with anything
@lshaq no idea
I really question the validity of that data.
I really question the validity of ColoCrossing.
That is impressive to say the least...
This thread shows that DO is popular among a certain group of users who are both very hard to please and also potentially huge market:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5874185
Seriously DO took a risk, played their card well (mostly) and understood the market very very well, and now cashing in.
If it is true that is one for the records in my opinion.
How do they define a "web facing computer" ?
Anything that is facing the open internet and providing a service. A client workstation would not be called internet facing because it is behind a firewall/nat and is not servicing anything on the open internet. I guess they should have said web facing server but I guess they decided to use computer so anyone can understand it including the non technical people who may not even know what a server is.
I'm assuming that "web facing computer" = (dedicated) server because the numbers given for Hetzner and OVH are fairly close to the number of servers both companies PR releases have claimed.
The one name on that list I was the most surprised to see was Alibaba. When did they start offering cloud services?
edit: in answer to my own question, Alibaba entered the cloud race in 2009 (Aliyun.com)
I'm pretty sure they are including virtualized computers in the count because their numbers for linode are impossibly wrong otherwise.
From their hosting provider survey it looks like they try to identify IPs that are hosted on the same physical server (node) and only count the main server IP in their count of "web facing computers" but there is a margin of error which could account for the high Linode server numbers. A recent Linode profile I read said Linode had 40,000 customers and its servers hosted 180,000 websites so the 57K server (node) figure is likely inflated.
TL;DR: Netcraft tries not to count virtualized servers in their count but their methodology isn't perfect
http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-provider-server-count/
edited to add: based on the info below, it looks like @jbiloh is right about Linode's numbers.
For example:
Solutions that use the same IP address for multiple virtual servers (e.g. VMware NAT networking) will count as one computer.
Solutions that use a single operating system kernel and TCP/IP stack for multiple virtual user-lands (e.g. user-mode Linux, FreeBSD jails) will count as one computer.
Solutions that have different operating system kernels handling different IP addresses (e.g. VMware in bridged mode) will count as separate computers.