Server Software used in the various sites of the Lainchan Webring
I iterated through the sites in the lainchan webring and grabbed their headers. This was initially to check which were still up but I realized that some http daemons include their name in the headers. Results in an easily redable format
The current state of servers that haven't died yet looks like this:
x220$ cat lainchan-servers | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
62 Server: neocities
34 Server: nginx
14 Server: Apache
9 Server: GitHub.com
7 Server: cloudflare
4 Server: pages-server
4 Server: OpenBSD httpd
1 Server: openresty
1 Server: lighttpd
1 Server: ddos-guard
1 Server: Netlify
Server Software | Count | Percentage |
---|---|---|
neocities | 62 | 44.9% |
nginx | 34 | 24.6% |
Apache | 14 | 10.1% |
GitHub.com (pages) | 9 | 6.5% |
cloudflare | 7 | 5% |
pages-server (codeberg) | 4 | 2.8% |
OpenBSD httpd | 4 | 2.8% |
openresty | 1 | 0.7% |
lighttpd | 1 | 0.7% |
ddos-guard | 1 | 0.7% |
Netlify | 1 | 0.7% |
Some extra information: 140 sites are online, 25 are offline, this totals to 165 sites. Of the online sites, 138 of them sent the HTTP Server:
header (meaning that only 2/140 did not send the header). This data is probably as accurate as it can get.
I want to start a new webring where members must run their own webserver. Realizing that lainchan webring is ~1/2 abandoned neocities web pages really made me think. A higher quality webring would be possible if everyone runs their own webserver because there is some incentive to keep it updated when it costs you $5-$10/month to run and $10/year to keep your domain name registered. Email me if you are interested.