Apache has held the top position in Netcraft's Web server surveys since 1996. This month, Apache hostnames increased by 10 million.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Apache is continuing to gain traction in Web server market share at the expense of Microsoft and Google, according to the latest survey from Internet services firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com).
According to Netcraft’s September Web server survey, which is based on responses from 227 million sites, Apache hostnames increased by 10 million in September – which was larger than last month’s gains of 6.7 million, but registered a smaller jump in market share compared to the previous month. The growth was fairly widely spread across a variety of hosts and boosted Apache’s market share by another percentage point to 56 percent overall.
Microsoft gained more than a million hostnames but it was not enough to prevent a loss of nearly a percentage point of market share.
Notable hostname increases include a 1.5 million gain in ServageOS hostnames, which is a nearly 700-percent increase over last month. Released in 2008 by German Web host Servage (www.servage.net), ServageOS is a linux distribution optimized for shared hosting, and features full process separation between customers and other security features for hosting environments.
Netcraft also reported gains of approximately half a million hostnames at ThePlanet.com, SAVVIS and GoDaddy.
lighttpd could not repeat its impressive gains of 600,000 hostnames in August. In fact, it saw the loss of about 4,000 hostnames this month, as well as a slight drop in market share.
nginx gained a million hostnames, however, the impact on its market share was minuscule. Its market share among the million busiest sites, however, continues to slowly but steady rise, according to Netcraft. Over the last two years nginx has risen from just under 20,000 sites to nearly 55,000. In the same time, Microsoft lost the same number of sites.
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