Netcraft's top servers across all domains from Aug '95 to Oct. '09.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) revealed the results of its October 2009 survey, which it received responses from 230,443,449 sites.
Once again, Apache had the largest share of the developer’s market.
Apache contributed to more than 60 percent of this month’s total growth of 4.3 million sites. This is a considerable gain from its market share last month‘s share of 47 percent.
In total, Apache gained 2.6 million sites, which includes 748,000 new Apache sites at German web hosting provider Hetzner Online.
Many of the web host’s new sites are using the dyns.cx dynamic DNS service, which lets customers use hostnames such as yourname.dyns.cx to direct to IP addresses at Hetzner.
But despite this overall growth, Apache saw a loss of 646,000 sites in the United States, which can be largely attributed to The Planet, whose 1.4 million expired hostnames led to a net loss of 706,000 sites.
nginx also showed a significant growth this month, gaining another 1.1 million sites for a total of 13.8 million sites. The server software is used by more than 80 percent of China Telecom’s 7.9 million websites.
China Telecom also had the largest gain in nginx sites this month, adding more than half a million sites to the worldwide gain of 1.1 million. 424 thousand of these new nginx sites belong to blogs at 163.com.
