A graph shows the increasing popularity of EV SSL certificates since 2007 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Extended Validation SSL certificates account for only 2.3 percent of all valid third party certificates, according to a report released Monday by Netcraft . Netcraft’s April 2011 survey found a total of 38,966 valid EV certificates. According to Netcraft, most sites use domain validated certificates because they are cheaper

A graph shows the increasing popularity of EV SSL certificates since 2007 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Extended Validation SSL certificates account for only 2.3 percent of all valid third party certificates, according to a report released Monday by Netcraft . Netcraft’s April 2011 survey found a total of 38,966 valid EV certificates. According to Netcraft, most sites use domain validated certificates because they are cheaper.

Symantec’s new Express Renewal feature eliminates the need to submit a Certificate Signing Request, as shown here (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – SSL certificate provider Symantec ( www.symantec.com ) announced on Friday that its SSL certificates are found on more than 70 percent of the Internet’s top 1,000 websites, according to the March 2011 Alexa Netcraft Index. This announcement comes a week after Symantec added two new features to simplify the renewal process of its SSL certificates. Symantec’s SSL brands include VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, RapidSSL and TC Trust Center.

This diagram shows the process of HackAlert (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Digital certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has shown the largest increase in the number of SSL Certificates active for the month of February, according to the Netcraft SSL survey. GlobalSign says it has added 2000 new secure sites a month, making its SSL technology “adopted at a faster rate than the other leading SSL providers” including Symantec, GoDaddy and Comodo.

A chart show the top domains across all servers in Netcraft’s March 2011 survey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its March Web server survey, where Apache gained the most hostnames for the third consecutive month. The survey saw responses from 298,002,705 sites, an increase in more than 13 million hostnames from last month’s survey.

A chart show the top domains across all servers in Netcraft’s March 2011 survey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its March Web server survey, where Apache gained the most hostnames for the third consecutive month.

A chart that shows the total sites across all domains for the Netcraft February 2011 survey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its February 2011 survey, which saw responses from 284,842,077 sites. Leading the survey with the largest number of increases in terms of market share and absolute growth is Apache, which saw 9.6 million new hostnames and a 1 percentage point increase in market share