(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) reported on Tuesday the results of its August 2009 survey, which showed a significant decrease in the amount of responses it received compared to July 2009 survey.
July’s survey saw responses from nearly 240 million sites – 13.7 million more than the meagre 225,950,957 hostnames Netcraft received in its August survey.
Netcraft attributes the huge drop to the expiry of a large number of sites at The Planet, including five million sites in the .pl domain all on one IP address, which were reportedly part of a linkfarm.
Apache once again had the largest share with 47,17 percent, followed by Microsoft with 23.34 percent, qq.com with 12.71 percent, Google with 5.94, nginx with 4.25 percent, and Lighttpd with 0.55 percent, which saw a significant gain in the number of sites hosted by Lighttpd with over two million sites.
Intended as a web server intended for high performance environments, Lighttpd has a small memory footprint, a large feature set and is licensed under a revised BSD license.
The server is run by a small team of developers, and hosts many popular and high traffic sites such as file sharing sites mininova.org and Pirate Bay.
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