Netcraft's chart of market share for top servers across all domains from August 1995 to February 2009.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) recently reported on its website the results of its February 2009 survey, which it received responses from 215,675,903 sites.
This shows a significant monthly gain of more than 30 million sites, increasing the total up by more than 16 percent.
In January’s Netcraft survey, Aplus.net, New York Internet, and ZeroLag Communications all tied for first place as the most reliable hosting company sites, recording absolutely no failed requests.
The bulk of this month’s growth appears to be attributed to more than 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP, a web server that is used by developer QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites under the qq.com domain.
QQ’s instant messenger client is the most widely used in China.
After the company began submitting sites for the Qzone blogging service as part of the survey, it has become the largest blog site provider in the survey.
In fact, it exceeds the number of websites for popular social communities like Windows Live Spaces, Blogger and MySpace.
Perhaps most interesting is Apache’s gain this month of 7.8 million sites. The vendor is now the first to be used by more than 100 million websites.
Microsoft-IIS gained 1.9 million sites for a total of almost 63 million sites. Many of these websites came from Microsoft’s own Windows Live Spaces service.
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