Earlier today I read a post about Ron Paul’s website. Interestingly, his site is less of a typical candidate site and more of a mashup of other sources of information about him. What a fantastic idea, and it shows additional transparency. That got me even more curious. What was the site developed on?
According to Netcraft, Ron Paul’s site was previously run on Microsoft IIS, but as of June 5th, it’s now on Apache!
So that got me wondering… what other candidates’ sites are running? Does this provide some insight into their overall candidacy?
Site Operating System and Server by Candidate
- Joe Biden (Democrat) – Linux, Zope by Interlix
- Hillary Clinton (Democrat) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb
- Christopher Dodd (Democrat) – FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
- John Edwards (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Plus Three
- Mike Gravel (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
- Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting
- Barack Obama (Democrat) – FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
- Bill Richardson (Democrat) – Linux, Zope by Interlix
- Wesley Clark (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
- Al Gore (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Sam Brownback (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc.
- Jim Gilmore (Republican) – Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc.
- Rudy Giuliani (Republican) – Linux, Apache by RackSpace
- Mike Huckabee (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
- Duncan Hunter (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
- John McCain (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
- Ron Paul (Republican) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Mitt Romney (Republican) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Tom Tancredo (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland
- Fred Thompson (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
- Tommy Thompson (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
- Chuck Hagel (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
- Newt Gingrich (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
Here’s the overall breakdown, pretty interesting results:
It’s fascinating that the Dems are predominantly Open Source… except for Hillary Clinton, and the Republicans are predominantly Microsoft, except Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney.
