Netcraft's table showing market share for top servers across all domains
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) announced on Tuesday that Apache led its November 2010 Web server survey with an increase of 12.9 million hostnames.
The gain is significantly more than the 5.5 million increase in hostnames Apache saw in last month’s survey.
Netcraft received responses from 249,461,227 sites for November’s survey, which is a slight increase from the 232 million sites it received last month.
Apache’s increase of 12.9 million hostnames comes mostly from the United States with 8.1 million and the Netherlands with 1.6 million.
The significant increase resulted in other server vendors losing market share. Despite this, all of the major vendors with the exception of Google saw a gain in hostnames this month.
nginx gained 927,000 hostnames, BurstNet saw 213k new hostnames, and ServePath increased by 207,000 new hostnames.
The gains saw nginx surpassing Google in this metric, although Google still has more than 4 million active sites than nginx.
Microsoft announced in September it would be moving Windows Live Spaces sites to WordPress.com over the next few months.
This month saw the effects of this migration with Layered Technologies and Peer1, which both use load-balanced hosting, seeing increases in the number of sites using nginx.
Since WordPress.com is served by nginx, Netcraft says it anticipates a further increase in sites using nginx as the migration is further underway.
Microsoft saw an increase of 3.1 million hostnames this month, mostly in the United States, with the largest gains being 942,000 hostnames at GoDaddy and 717,000 hostnames at Demand Media.
Lighttpd gained 690,000 hostnames, which can be attributed to the large number of new hostnames at SAVVIS Communications in Australia.
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