From Tech Republic:

Go Daddy is by some measures the largest single Web hosting provider in the world. On March 21 this year, it announced that approximately 4.5 million domain names would be moved from Apache Web servers running Linux-based operating systems to Microsoft Windows-based Hosting.

More domains are registered by Go Daddy than by any other registrar. This migration of 4.5 million domains involves the movement of Go Daddy’s entire domain parking portfolio, and accounts for a sharp 5 percent shift in worldwide Web hosting statistics according to Netcraft, an Internet services company based in England that is known for online posting of comprehensive Web server statistics data.

A one-month shift of 5 percent of market share is a significant change. Pascal Martin, Microsoft’s general manager of Worldwide Hosting, said “Microsoft solutions for the Web hosting industry have continued to gain traction in the market over the past several years. Go Daddy’s decision to migrate its domains to the Windows platform is a significant validation point of our strategy.”

Maybe they just wanted to add a thumbdrive and didn’t feel like recompiling the kernel.

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