According to Netcraft's April web server survey, Apache remained the most popular web server, as it has since 1996, followed by Microsoft-IIS and QQ, however, Netcraft saw a few new entries into the running for top web server.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to Netcraft's (www.netcraft.com) latest web server survey, Apache remains the most popular web server, as it has since 1996, with a total of more than 106 million sites, followed by Microsoft-IIS's 67 million and QQ's nearly 29 million.
UK web analytics firm found in its April 2009 survey, released this week, that aside from Apache's usual dominance, some interesting language specific servers have made a strong appearance, including Ruby-based application server Mongrel (mongrel.rubyforge.org), which registered more than 41,000 sites, and the python-based Zope (www.zope.org) with nearly 46,000.
Pike (pike.ida.liu.se) and C-based Caudium (www.caudium.net) has almost 14 thousand sites, and the Erlang (www.erlang.org)-based Yaws (yaws.hyber.org) has about 70. Also, newcomer Salvia, a lightweight web server framework written in Haskell (www.haskell.org), has recorded its very first website gain.
Netcraft's findings are based on responses from 231,510,169 sites, representing an increase of more than 6 million sites when compared with last month. Netcraft reports that Google and nginx account for almost all of the changes.
Although it is generally uncommon for websites to use fake server headers, last month's survey made special mention of them becoming more prevalent. Leading the pack was ZX_Spectrum/1997 (Sinclair_BASIC), used by a Russian company to serve 0.02 percent of the world's websites, however, this month "hi" has been making headway, appearing as the server banner for social networking site twitter (www.twitter.com), currently the 432nd most popular site according to the Netcraft toolbar community (toolbar.netcraft.com).
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