(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Thirty million hostnames at qq.com, a popular instant messaging and blogging network in China, were made no longer public, leading to an increase in the market share for all the other major web servers, according to the results of the January web server survey from analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com).
According to the results of the survey, which examined 206,741,990 sites, Apache (www.apache.org) gained approximately 3 million hostnames compared to the December 2009 survey, bringing its total to 111.3 million. In second place comes Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) which gained 600 thousand hostnames.
After showing exceptional growth with an increase of 1.3 million hostnames, nginx lost hostnames this month but grew substantially in active sites, of which it gained 2.7 million.
All qq.com blogs were made public last year, leading to a flood of hostnames. In the past six months, however, more qq.com blogs went private, and on several occasions qq.com apparently made all blogs private, and it stopped reporting blog activity, making Netcraft unable to tell which blogs are active.
In the December 2009 survey, qq.com accounted for nearly 13 percent of servers across all domains.
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