I got bored… very very bored indeed and I found this great site (or rather a small section of a site) which tells you what web server that particular site is running… so here we go.

• www.microsoft.com – IIS 6 on Windows Server System (what a surprise!)
• www.bbc.co.uk – Apache on Linux
• http://wordpress.com – LiteSpeed on Linux
• www.google.com – GWS (Generic Workstation Server) on unknown operating system
• www.msblog.org – Apache on Linux
• www.cnn.com – Apache on Windows Server System
• www.msn.com – IIS 6 on Windows Server System
• www.blogger.com – Apache on unknown operating system
• www.ebay.com – IIS 5 on Windows 2000 Server (can you believe it?)
• www.amazon.com – Totally unknown 😮
• www.aol.com – AOL Server 4.0.9 beta (it’s own brand of server!)
• www.imdb.com – Apache on Linux
• www.apple.com – Apache “Darwin” on Mac XSan Server
• www.bankofamerica.com - Web Server on Sun Solaris Server
• www.adobe.com – Apache on unknown operating system
• www.w3.org – Apache on Linux
• www.sun.com – Sun Java System Web Server on Sun Solaris Server
• http://sourceforge.net – lightTPD Web Server on Linux
• www.nba.com – Apache on Windows Serve System
• www.mi5.gov.uk – Apache Advanced Extranet Server on Linux
• www.fbi.gov – Web Server on Sun Solaris Server
• www.ibm.com – IBM HTTP Web Server on Linux
• www.orlyowl.com – Apache on Linux

As you can see… I got bored… but look how IIS compares to Apache 😮 Quite shocking don’t you think?

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