Monthly Web Server Survey of Netcraft, an Internet services company providing Internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing has been published. 

Result of this web server survey in November 2008 showing some interesting information of Yahoo Inc on web server market share. Yahoo Inc is now start identify their web servers as ‘YTS’ (Yahoo! Traffic Server). 

Netcraft Reports:

Yahoo! is thought to use YTS to provide reverse proxy and connection management in a number of its services, although many of the company’s sites were previously configured to omit the Server header in their HTTP responses. Yahoo! sites thought to use YTS include Bix, delicious, Flickr and Yahoo Groups.

Yahoo! traffic server originally developed by Inktomi Corporation, which has been acquired by Yahoo Inc on 2002.  Now this traffic server used to serve over 12 billion requests per day and further development made by Yahoo’s own team. 

By introducing YTS on HTTP response header, Yahoo! seems to start their war to grab the world web server market share.  By the way, Google Inc used to identify their web server as ‘GWS’ (Google Web Server).

Advanced services offering is designed to provide customers with managed backup for dedicated server data.

The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, today launched its Alpha Managed Backup, as an advanced services offering, to provide a fully customizable solution.

The company states that the new advanced services offering is designed to provide customers with managed backup for dedicated server data. The product is the fourth solution to be added to the Alpha Advanced Services portfolio, which includes Alpha Server Monitoring, Alpha Server Security and Alpha Server Administration, it adds.

The company articulates that with the new solution, customers can leave the management of data backup and restores to its team of dedicated hosting professionals and daily backups are continuously monitored, with issues or failures automatically corrected. It also says that customers are also alerted when they near the limits of their existing storage space. The company claims that alpha managed backup stores customer data on, fault-tolerant storage platform, backed by its infrastructure and SAS 70 Type II data centers.

Todd Mitchell, General Manager for advanced services of The Planet noted, ”There’s an almost-daily report of data loss at companies around the world, which can easily lead to a loss of revenue, as well as significant reputation damage. With Alpha Managed Backup, customers gain peace of mind by leaving the management of their data protection to a team of seasoned professionals. Our dedicated Advanced Services team ensures that customer servers are consistently backed up, safeguarding against critical data loss.”

Source: http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/the-planet-launches-alpha-managed-backup-service_1023087938.htm