(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) announced on Wednesday the results of September 2009 survey, which showed a small rise in the number of responses.
The survey saw a responses from 226,099,841 sites, with an increase of 149,000 sites compared to its August survey.
This month, Nginx gained the largest share with an increase of 1.2 million sites, overshadowing Apache’s growth of 823,000.
This increase was largely fuelled by the popularity of Russian networking site Vkontakte, which made an appearance on Netcraft’s million busiest sites.
Other popular nginx sites include humour sites Fail Blog and I Can Has Cheezburger?, both of which are WordPress blogs owned by Pet Holdings.
Meanwhile, lighttpd saw the greatest loss this month, particularly when compared to its significant growth last month which brought its total to more than two million sites.
With a mere 844,000 sites, the developer lost more than half of its sites since the August survey after losing 1 million sites on the Amazon AWS-hosted tubely.com domain.
The overall share breakdown of the top developers are as follows: Apache at 46.30 percent, Microsoft at 21.94 percent, qq.com at 13.40 percent, Google at 6.29 percent, and nginx at 5.09 percent.
