Joomla 3.9.22 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which contains over 25 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced its sponsorship from Google today. Google’s sponsorship of Joomla will enable the Project to continue providing one of the most widely used Open Source CMS. Together, Joomla and Google have a shared interest in fostering a thriving web ecosystem. Collaborating with open source content management systems and ecommerce platforms allows Google to learn from and support their communities for the betterment of the web as a whole. Shared goals Google and Joomla have defined a series of shared goals and a strategy to accomplish them. We aim to encourage site owner success, improve user experience, and build a stronger, more secure web.  Google will provide content that covers the latest best practices, technologies, and tools that support these goals. Content will be offered through a variety of mediums, like webinars, blog posts and case studies, to accommodate a range of engagement preferences and to gather broad community feedback. Through the Open Source CMS Fund, Google also explores funding projects that work to improve performance tooling, privacy and security, and support new web platform capabilities. Benefits for the Community The Joomla Community of users and developers will benefit from this collaboration in the following ways:  Increased resources and collaborative programming via channels you’re already tuned into, including newsletters, articles, whitepapers, talks. Ability to provide input on Google tools, products, and initiatives. About Google Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. About Joomla Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) used to build beautiful web sites and powerful online applications. A global volunteer community of developers has been building and improving Joomla since the first version was released in 2005. This immense effort has made Joomla easy to use, stable and very secure. Joomla is search engine and mobile friendly, multilingual, flexible and extensible. Offering unlimited design possibilities alongside industry leading security, Joomla also has thousands of third party extensions and templates allowing further customization to meet specific needs. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 4 release, and the second Alpha of Joomla 3.10.

With Joomla 4.0 beta being released a few weeks ago, we enter into a phase of stabilization. Joomla! 4.0 is feature complete, that means, no new features are going to be added to Joomla 4.0. The focus is on fixing the last bugs to get Joomla! 4.0 out as soon as possible. But what will happen until the release and afterwards? Obviously we don’t want to stop new feature development, which is why we would like to refine our development strategy for upcoming versions. Whenever we start the work on a new minor version, we plan to define the subsequent two minor releases This results in a more reliable release cycle and a more consistent road map.

Joomla 3.9.21 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 3 release, and the first Alpha of Joomla 3.10.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today its partnership with Elastic Email, a professional mail service provider for Transactional and Marketing related mails.

Joomla 3.9.22 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which contains over 25 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced its sponsorship from Google today. Google’s sponsorship of Joomla will enable the Project to continue providing one of the most widely used Open Source CMS. Together, Joomla and Google have a shared interest in fostering a thriving web ecosystem. Collaborating with open source content management systems and ecommerce platforms allows Google to learn from and support their communities for the betterment of the web as a whole. Shared goals Google and Joomla have defined a series of shared goals and a strategy to accomplish them. We aim to encourage site owner success, improve user experience, and build a stronger, more secure web.  Google will provide content that covers the latest best practices, technologies, and tools that support these goals. Content will be offered through a variety of mediums, like webinars, blog posts and case studies, to accommodate a range of engagement preferences and to gather broad community feedback. Through the Open Source CMS Fund, Google also explores funding projects that work to improve performance tooling, privacy and security, and support new web platform capabilities. Benefits for the Community The Joomla Community of users and developers will benefit from this collaboration in the following ways:  Increased resources and collaborative programming via channels you’re already tuned into, including newsletters, articles, whitepapers, talks. Ability to provide input on Google tools, products, and initiatives. About Google Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. About Joomla Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) used to build beautiful web sites and powerful online applications. A global volunteer community of developers has been building and improving Joomla since the first version was released in 2005. This immense effort has made Joomla easy to use, stable and very secure. Joomla is search engine and mobile friendly, multilingual, flexible and extensible. Offering unlimited design possibilities alongside industry leading security, Joomla also has thousands of third party extensions and templates allowing further customization to meet specific needs. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 4 release, and the second Alpha of Joomla 3.10.

With Joomla 4.0 beta being released a few weeks ago, we enter into a phase of stabilization. Joomla! 4.0 is feature complete, that means, no new features are going to be added to Joomla 4.0. The focus is on fixing the last bugs to get Joomla! 4.0 out as soon as possible. But what will happen until the release and afterwards? Obviously we don’t want to stop new feature development, which is why we would like to refine our development strategy for upcoming versions. Whenever we start the work on a new minor version, we plan to define the subsequent two minor releases This results in a more reliable release cycle and a more consistent road map.

Joomla 3.9.21 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 3 release, and the first Alpha of Joomla 3.10.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today its partnership with Elastic Email, a professional mail service provider for Transactional and Marketing related mails.

Joomla Download Links Extension will help you sending links for the downloadable items and generating leads. Generate leads when you are distributing downloadbale items at your Joomla website Super easy install and setup You can easily setup in minutes and publish at any website. NO CODING REQUIRED Fully customizable! Fully customizable via self-defined parameters! Well-commented Every parameter is explained, just customize in minutes GDPR Compliant You can ask visitor if they accept to request newsletter. Unique Download Links Each link is unique for the downloader. Links Availability via hours You can define a time limit for the links. For example, when you set 1 hour, link will be available only for 1 hour. Confirm Email by download You can view if a user has downloaded the an item. Name + Email Address or Disable Name It is possible to request email address with name or disable name input field and request only email address. View Emails with filters You can view submissions at each module backend separately. Export Emails You can export emails with submitted date, url, ip address 3 Different themes Show download links module at any part of your website. Unlimited Colors Make it yourself with unlimited color options for backgrounds, text Send HTML Emails for Download Links Send HTML Emails for Download Links. You can create your own HTML email templates and use for the download links. Language Files Available Sprachdateien in Deutsch sind verfügbar. Des fichiers de langue en Français sont disponibles.. Sono disponibili file di lingua in Italiano.

JoomEvents is a powerful, features rich, easy to use Joomla events and calendars management extension with events registration capability. Events Management Events management from backend Power backend filter to find events easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, export, duplicate .. easily from backend Support all day and meeting event type You can set event date and event end date You can set event thumbnail, poster and banner Ability to add attachement file for download in event Ability to feature event You can approve or disapprove an event You can change event state to confirmed or cancelled Ability to change event weight (Hight, normal, low) You can display ribbon in event Set event to use menu entry Assign event to calendar, activity, public, venue, resource, section and category Quickly create calendar, activity, public, venue, resource, section and category inside event Ability to set an advanced scheduling setup on each event (daily recurring, weekly recurring ...) Set event description or use description of calendar Voting / Rating support Set event expiration date Ability to reset event hits Ability to set alternate contact informations Save event as copy Ability to archive or trash event Set event metadata (description, keywords ...) Ability to preview event from backend Ability to submit event from frontend Ability to set submission instructions of event Ability to preassign event to calendar, activity, public, venue, resource, section and category on new submission from frontend Ability to allow specific user group to approve an event (using ACL) And more ... Event Scheduling Support daily, weekly, monthly and yearly recurring system Ability to set date of end of the period Ability to set Interval between each event to create Ability to set repeat count of event iCal rule support for defining complex recurrence pattern Ability to see computed dates easily Select custom days or weeks in monthly recurring Select custom days in weekly recurring Ability to include or exclude weekend in daily recurring Backend view of non approved events for easy management Event Registration Allow/disallow event registration in every event Set price of individual user to register in every event Free ticket support in every event You can set the maximum number of attendees can register in every event Overbooking feature support Set registration information Ability to see registration information inside event Ability to set booking start and end dates Ability to allow specific user group to enroll an event (using ACL) Ability to allow specific user group to enroll an event automatically (using ACL) Ability to allow specific user group to see registrations in frontend (using ACL) Event Planification Set organization transport type (carpool, bus ..) Set organization gathering place Set if organization is inside or outside Set organization money data (price, travel expenses, launch expenses, cachet, profit ....) Set organization contacts (organizer, photographer, Producer, Steward, Speaker ...) Ability to extend organization contacts Technicians and musiciens schedule time (going Time, arrival time, return time, install time, sound balance time ...) Ability to set private informations Ability to download / edit contract Registrations Management Registrations management from backend Power backend filter to find registrations easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, export, duplicate .. registration easily from backend Attach registration to an event and participant Ability to set custom comment for registration Ability to choose registration commitment type You can set number of accompanying persons And more ... Activities management Activities management from backend Power backend filter to find activities easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, duplicate .. activity easily from backend Ability to assign activity to calendar and event Choose custom color and text color for activity Set activity as default Choose activity image and bullet Set activity description, metadata and publishing info Calendars Management Calendars management from backend Power backend filter to find calendars easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, duplicate .. calendar easily from backend Ability to assign calendar to activity and event Customize calendar color and text color Customize hits number to mark "is hot event" in calen Choose calendar contact from Joomla users Set thumbnail and bullet image Choose marker icon for google map Set description, description model, metadata and publishing info for calendar Set contacts definition Set calendar as default Set calendar as active by default Venues Management Venues management from backend Power backend filter to find venues easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, duplicate .. venue easily from backend Set address or use pointer in map Assign to calendar Set venue as default Ability to save as copy Categories, Publics, Resources, Sections Management Management from backend Power backend filter to find items easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, duplicate .. item easily from backend Ability to assign item to calendar Ability to assign category to section Add note to public item Set description, metadata and publishing info Set item thumbnail and bullet image Set color and text color Set item as default And more ... External Calendars Management Management from backend Power backend filter to find external calendars easily and quickly Ability to delete, edit, add, archive, unpublish, duplicate .. external calendar easily from backend Support Google Calendar and iCalendar (ICS) Ability to set custom color, text color Ability to set custom CSS classes Import / Export Features Support URL, iCal URL and file import type Ability to import into an existing category or separate categories or a new category Ability to import into a specific calendar, activity, public, resource Ability to import into an existing venue or separate venues or a new venue Ability to select native language to display holiday titles in the language native to that country. Ability to import from sample data (American history events, American History Birthdays) Ability to export events from a specific date range Ability to export events from specific calendar, activity, category .... Ability to export calendars, categories and venues Display Features Bootstrap support Ability to customize event data (buttons, header, map, contacts ...) Ability to customize events list Ability to change default event template Ability to change default form template Ability to change default events template and more ... More Features Custom ribbons management Payment registration support (Paypal, Py By Checke and more ..) Integration with JComments Integration with AcyMailing Integration with Community Builder Advanced SEO features support like Open Graph, Twitter cards, Rich Snippets Joomla Smart Search integration Joomla standard search integration Joomla Custom Fields support (coming soon in v1.2.0) Shortcode support and more ...

**Joomla Emoji Reactions Plugin for K2 ** will help you getting reactions from your site visitors.. Super easy install and setup You can easily setup in minutes and publish at any website. NO CODING REQUIRED Well-commented Every parameter is explained, just customize in minutes Enable Cookie Check You can enable cookie check and let only 1 submission per device. Enable IP Address Check You can enable IP Address check and let only 1 submission per IP Address. Excluded Joomla Articles You can disable at selected Joomla Articles. Excluded K2 Items You can disable at selected K2 Items. Exclude Categories You can disable at article of selected Category or Categories Excluded Menu Items You can disable at selected Menu Items. Hide or show at mobile devices 100% responsible and mobile devices tested, you can optionally hide at mobile devices.

**Joomla Emoji Reactions Plugin ** will help you getting reactions from your site visitors. Super easy install and setup You can easily setup in minutes and publish at any website. NO CODING REQUIRED Well-commented Every parameter is explained, just customize in minutes Enable Cookie Check You can enable cookie check and let only 1 submission per device. Enable IP Address Check You can enable IP Address check and let only 1 submission per IP Address. Excluded Joomla Articles You can disable at selected Joomla Articles. Excluded K2 Items You can disable at selected K2 Items. Exclude Categories You can disable at article of selected Category or Categories Excluded Menu Items You can disable at selected Menu Items. Hide or show at mobile devices 100% responsible and mobile devices tested, you can optionally hide at mobile devices.

This is a Joomla! plugin which adds social sharing buttons and metadata optimized for Open Graph and Twitter to com_content items. Requirements Joomla! 3.9 or newer PHP 7.2.5 or newer Support This plugin is primarily designed for use on the joomla.org website network and as such priority is given to the use cases there. Additional features or use cases will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Layout/Media Overrides The plugin's media and layouts may be overridden following the Joomla! override conventions. To override the layout file, copy the tmpl/default.php file to templates//html/plg_content_joomlarrssb/default.php To override the CSS files, copy the media/css/*.css files to templates//css/joomlarrssb/*.css To override the JavaScript files, copy the media/js/*.js files to templates//js/joomlarrssb/*.js Optional RTL CSS The plugin's default layout supports inclusion of a RTL CSS file if need be (one is not shipped with the plugin by default). You can add RTL CSS by placing a file at templates//css/joomlarrssb/joomla-rtl.css.

Ruxin Font Resizer plugin allows users to change font size, make them larger or smaller - Display in 6 different positions: Top Left - Top Right - Middle Left - Middle Right - Bottom Left - Bottom Right - Ability to select buttons color and background color - Ability to adjust the margins - Ability to set to display or not display on mobile phone

The unofficial plugin that allows you to add instant.page script to your website. Configuration / settings Instant.Page version - you can choose your preferred version with this setting (the latest by default) Using the official CDN - you can decide if you want to use the official CDN or if you prefer to use local files (by default yes) defer Attribute - you can decide if you want to include the deffer attribute (by default no) Other body attributes - you can add your own attributes to the body tag

In a recent post, Brian Krebs discussed a technique for disrupting 8chan, a controversial message board. Ron Guilmette, a security researcher, spotted that N.T. Technology, the hosting company owned by 8chan’s current operator, no longer has the right to transact business as it is in the “administrative hold” state. ARIN, the Internet registry N.T. Technology obtained its IP address allocation from, would be within its rights to reclaim the IP address space. Ron Guilmette is an expert in this type of analysis - last year he discovered the theft of $50 million worth of IP addresses in AFRINIC’s service region. However, taking down 8chan is unlikely to be as simple as requesting that ARIN deallocates its IP address space. After deallocation, the IP addresses may continue to be advertised as fullbogons - netblocks that are used on the Internet despite not being assigned to an end user. While some Internet service providers do block fullbogons, this is by no means universal. Furthermore, 8chan’s main domain name, 8kun.top, is not currently hosted on N.T. Technology’s infrastructure, so would not be affected by ARIN deallocating N.T. Technology’s address space. It currently resolves to 203.28.246.1, which belongs to a netblock delegated to VanwaTech. VanwaTech, also known as OrcaTech, is a hosting company based in Vancouver, Washington and owned by Nick Lim. Nick Lim previously served as the CTO of Epik for a short period of time, a hosting company that briefly hosted 8chan after Cloudflare terminated its contract with 8chan. Diagram showing 8chan's hosting infrastructure

In the October 2020 survey we received responses from 1,205,797,275 sites across 264,098,084 unique domains and 10,449,223 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 9.50 million hostnames and 111,000 computers, but a loss of 187,000 domains. nginx experienced the largest growth in domains and web-facing computers, where it leads with a total of 79.9 million domains and 3.58 million computers, giving it shares of 30.2% and 34.2%. However, nginx's growth was beaten by Google in terms of active sites, with Google gaining 1.31 million active sites compared to nginx's gain of 1.06 million. This growth makes Google the only major vendor to see an increase in its market share of active sites this month, which now stands just above 10%. Despite falling by 0.79 percentage points, Apache remains well in the lead with a 25.7% share of active sites. Contrary to its strong growth in other metrics, nginx saw the largest drop in its presence among the top million websites, with 3,030 fewer sites taking its share down to 25.5% while Apache continues to lead with 28.3%. Other notable changes this month include an 8.10% reduction in the number of domains powered by Microsoft web servers, which fell by 1.73 million to 19.6 million. Much of this was caused by the continuation of parked GoDaddy domains migrating from GoDaddy's own hosting infrastructure to OpenResty servers in Google Cloud, resulting in the number of OpenResty-powered domains rising by 1.92 million to 36.4 million. The only market in which Microsoft increased its share was within the top million websites, where it gained 319 additional sites to reach a share of 7.20%. DigitalOcean App Platform DigitalOcean has entered the Platform as a Service (PaaS) arena by launching its new App Platform product, which can be used to build, deploy and scale web applications and static websites. It is a fully managed service based on DigitalOcean Kubernetes and other open standards, offering much of the flexibility of Kubernetes without the associated complexity. Competing with the likes of AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Oracle Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure App Service, DigitalOcean App Platform offers a Starter pricing tier that lets customers become familiar with the platform by deploying up to three static sites free of charge, while dynamic apps can be built and deployed from $5/month. App Platform supports several popular languages and application frameworks out of the box, including PHP, Docker, Go, Node.js, Python and Ruby. All pricing tiers – including the free one – include global content delivery via Cloudflare, which means that applications deployed on App Platform will likely count towards the number of Cloudflare-hosted websites in future Netcraft surveys. New server releases nginx 1.19.3 was released on 29 September. This version in the mainline release branch incorporates several bug fixes, some new directives, and a new ngx_stream_set_module, which allows variables to be set in nginx configuration files. njs 0.4.4 was also released on 29 September. This version of the nginx-extending scripting language includes a new Buffer object as well as several other new features and bug fixes. NGINX Unit 1.20.0 was later released on 8 October, and introduces several new features, bug fixes, and support for ASGI 3.0. Apache Tomcat 8.5.59, Tomcat 9.0.39 and Tomcat 10.0.0-M9 were released on 9 October. Tomcat 10.0.0-M9 is considered a milestone release, as it switches from Java EE to Jakarta EE following the transfer of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. Apache has provided a tool that automatically converts existing Java EE 8 projects that run on Tomcat 9 to Jakarta EE 9 projects that will run on this latest version of Tomcat 10. DeveloperSeptember 2020PercentOctober 2020PercentChange nginx407,086,44234.03%412,851,94034.24%0.21 Apache330,682,80927.64%326,050,97327.04%-0.60 Microsoft95,944,6008.02%92,405,6757.66%-0.36 Google45,689,9613.82%46,583,4113.86%0.04

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.531 0.010 0.023 0.023 2 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.348 0.069 0.139 0.139 3 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.186 0.074 0.149 0.149 4 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.261 0.081 0.162 0.162 5 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.318 0.093 0.186 0.186 6 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.370 0.095 0.189 0.189 7 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.429 0.116 0.233 0.234 8 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.286 0.007 0.025 0.025 9 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.005 0.580 0.056 0.112 0.112 10 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.237 0.078 0.156 0.156 See full table In September 2020 Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site. The top seven hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft's requests in September and were separated by average connection time. Rackspace offers managed dedicated and cloud hosting solutions and has appeared in the top 10 seven times so far in 2020. Second place to fourth place is made up by Webair, Hyve Managed Hosting and Swishmail. Webair and Swishmail have appeared in the top 10 seven times in 2020 so far and Hyve has made six appearances. Webair provides a range of services including cloud management solutions and disaster recovery. Hyve is a fully managed UK based cloud hosting provider that offers colocation in 35 data centres across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Swishmail has now appeared in the top 10 for four consecutive months.

In the September 2020 survey we received responses from 1,196,298,727 sites, across 264,284,761 unique domains and 10,338,585 web-facing computers. Compared with last month, this is a loss of 34,277,859 sites and 10,901 web-facing computers, but a gain of 2,463,474 unique domains. Approximately 15 million domains have switched from Microsoft web server software to OpenResty, a web server which adds LuaJIT support to nginx. This represents a 5.97 percentage point drop in Microsoft’s market share of domains, and, accordingly, a 6.71 percentage point increase for OpenResty. OpenResty now powers 34.5 million domains, giving it a 13% market share and gaining it third place behind nginx and Apache. This huge swing is driven by GoDaddy migrating its customers’ parked domains from GoDaddy’s own hosting infrastructure to Google Cloud. Microsoft also experienced a large loss of 49,600 web-facing computers (-3.1%), unrelated to the GoDaddy OpenResty migration. The largest increase in web-facing computers was seen for Apache (+19,100), though this was not enough to re-take the lead from nginx, which became the largest web server vendor by this metric last month. Most of the large vendors saw drops in terms of the number of active sites hosted this month. Cloudflare and LiteSpeed are among the vendors who saw growth in this area despite the overall negative trend. Pepyaka (used by Wix) and Squarespace also both gained active sites (+3.0% and +2.6% respectively), reflecting the growing popularity of website builders. New vendor releases This month LiteSpeed released version 5.4.9 of the LiteSpeed Web Server. A small number of new features have been added in this update, including automatic CloudFlare CDN IP detection and support for bcrypt password hashes when using HTTP authentication. Apache have released three new versions of Tomcat this month – 8.5.58, 9.0.38 and 10.0.0-M8. These releases each add a number of new features and security patches. Notable changes include adding support for the Expect HTTP header, and adding support for setting read and write idle timeouts on websocket connections. Apache also released version 8.1.0 of Apache Traffic Server. This release focused on improving the stability, reliability and performance of the server’s HTTP/2 support. DeveloperAugust 2020PercentSeptember 2020PercentChange nginx448,602,80636.45%407,086,44234.03%-2.43 Apache318,307,24525.87%330,682,80927.64%1.78 Microsoft118,126,6629.60%95,944,6008.02%-1.58 Google44,326,2273.60%45,689,9613.82%0.22

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.285 0.005 0.022 0.022 2 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.266 0.082 0.163 0.163 3 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.524 0.010 0.023 0.023 4 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.245 0.077 0.154 0.154 5 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.005 0.254 0.086 0.174 0.174 6 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.312 0.087 0.173 0.173 7 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.010 0.248 0.089 0.176 0.176 8 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.014 0.324 0.078 0.159 0.159 9 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.019 0.577 0.056 0.112 0.112 10 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.024 0.267 0.084 0.168 0.168 See full table The most reliable hosting company site in August 2020 belonged to Choopa.com, with no failed requests and the fastest average connection time. Choopa.com has now had the most reliable hosting company site three times in 2020. The company provides a range of services including cloud hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and managed services from four locations across the US, Europe and Asia. Swishmail appeared in second place, also responding to all of Netcraft's requests in August. Swishmail provides business email services alongside hosting solutions. Rackspace, Bigstep and EveryCity appear in third, fourth and fifth places. Rackspace had the second fastest average connection time and has appeared in the top 10 six times in 2020. Bigstep offers "bare metal" cloud hosting to provide the flexibility of cloud hosting but without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. EveryCity has appeared in the top 10 seven times in 2020 and is the only site that uses SmartOS.

The Netcraft Browser Extension now offers credential leak detection for extra protection against shopping site skimmers. With brick-and-mortar shops around the world closed due to COVID-19, consumers turned to online businesses to fulfil their shopping needs. According to Adobe’s Digital Economy Index report, US online spending in June was $73 billion, up 76% from $42 billion last year. Even with restrictions lifted, research commissioned by Visa suggests that 74% of Britons who shopped online more often during the lockdown will continue to do so. Now more than ever it is important to protect against JavaScript skimmers. These are snippets of malicious code which criminals upload to compromised shops. Unbeknownst to the store owner or the user, they transmit entered card details directly to the criminal. Unlike scams such as phishing, which can often be avoided by a vigilant internet user, skimmers are invisible to the human eye without a tool such as the Netcraft Extension to expose them. Netcraft currently blocks over 6,000 shopping sites which contain skimmers, and even large companies such as British Airways, Ticketmaster and Puma have fallen prey to these attacks in the past. The Netcraft Extension identifying and blocking a skimmer on an online shop When you visit a shopping site, the Netcraft extension will evaluate all requests made by the web page. If a request is found to be sending credentials to a different domain, the extension will block the request to prevent your data from being stolen. A block screen will notify you about the request and provide information about the malicious behaviour that was detected. Only card number leaks are currently blocked, but other types of credentials may be enabled in future updates. For example, if you check out using your credit card on exampleshoppingsite.com but your card details are sent to examplebadsite.com, the extension will block the request. This checking is done locally and securely in your browser – no sensitive information is sent to Netcraft. The extension will also block pages which make requests to malicious domains that are part of JavaScript attacks. In addition to shopping site skimmers, the Netcraft Extension also protects against other malicious JavaScript, phishing and fake shops, including those related to coronavirus. The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium. If you already have the Netcraft Extension installed, your browser will update it automatically.

In the August 2020 survey we received responses from 1,230,576,586 sites across 261,821,287 unique domains and 10,349,486 web-facing computers. This represents a loss of 3.65 million sites, but a gain of 1.16 million domains and 128,000 computers. The number of web-facing computers using nginx increased by 83,000 this month, which means that - for the first time - nginx is in use by more web-facing computers than any other web server, including Apache. This is another milestone for nginx, and reflects its impressive growth in recent years. Apache still serves more active sites than nginx, and a greater proportion of the top million busiest sites, but this month its decline in these metrics continued. One year ago, among the top million busiest sites, nginx trailed Apache’s market share by 6 percentage points. nginx has since halved this gap, and is now less than 3 percentage points behind. If the current trend continues, it won’t be long before nginx overtakes Apache in this area too. As well as a marked decrease in total sites this month of 22.14 million (-15.8%), Microsoft also suffered in other metrics this month. The number of domains served using Microsoft software dropped by 8.27 million (-18.4%), and 19,000 fewer web-facing computers (-1.2%) are running Microsoft web servers. Microsoft also lost 633,000 active sites (-7.3%). New vendor releases Apache released three new versions of httpd this month. Version 2.4.44 fixed several bugs, version 2.4.45 dropped support for the abandoned HTTP2 Cache Digests proposal, and version 2.4.46 fixed three security vulnerabilities. This month nginx released updates for three of its products. nginx 19.1.2 mainline was released on 11 August with a few minor optimizations and several bugfixes. On the same day, njs 0.4.3 was released, adding support for the querystring module. On 13 August nginx Unit 1.19.0 was released, which introduced several new features, improved performance, and fixed a number of bugs. DeveloperJuly 2020PercentAugust 2020PercentChange nginx451,156,87836.55%448,602,80636.45%-0.10 Apache314,054,52325.45%318,307,24525.87%0.42 Microsoft140,264,33211.36%118,126,6629.60%-1.77 Google44,290,4303.59%44,326,2273.60%0.01