February 2010 Web Server Survey

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After a year long consistent rise nginx is experiencing a loss for a second month in a row as inactive weblogs on WordPress and 163.com are expired out of the survey. This month nginx had a decrease of 1.5M hostnames, which brings its total down to the number of hostnames it had in October.The biggest change of the month belongs to Apache with a 1.6M increase in hostnames. It was closely followed by Microsoft which saw a growth of 1.1M.

China Internet Network Information Center has recently announced a change in the .cn domain name registration regulations. Since December 14th individuals can no longer register .cn domains and a paper application has to be submitted to register one along with photocopies of the company business license and registrant ID. While this has reduced the frequency of .cn domains in spam, it does not seem to have affected the growth of the domain. Netcraft has discovered 49k new hostnames in .cn this month, compared to 37k in December, 59k in November and 39k in October.

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Total Sites Across All Domains
August 1995 - February 2010

Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains
August 1995 - February 2010

Developer	January 2010	Percent	February 2010	Percent	Change
Apache	111,307,941	53.84%	112,903,926	54.46%	0.62
Microsoft	49,792,844	24.08%	50,928,226	24.57%	0.48
Google	14,550,011	7.04%	14,315,464	6.91%	-0.13
nginx	15,568,224	7.53%	13,978,719	6.74%	-0.79
lighttpd	955,146	0.46%	1,097,685	0.53%	0.07

Totals for Active Servers Across All Domains
June 2000 - February 2010

Developer	January 2010	Percent	February 2010	Percent	Change
Apache	43,667,682	52.32%	44,293,169	52.83%	0.51
Microsoft	14,738,628	17.66%	14,959,249	17.84%	0.18
Google	10,761,265	12.89%	11,475,629	13.69%	0.79
nginx	9,632,642	11.54%	8,412,148	10.03%	-1.51
lighttpd	288,368	0.35%	290,503	0.35%	0.00

For more information on active servers, see Active Sites

Market Share for Top Servers Across the Million Busiest Sites
September 2008 - February 2010

Developer	January 2010	Percent	February 2010	Percent	Change
Apache	665,593	66.98%	665,278	66.94%	-0.04
Microsoft	172,983	17.41%	171,563	17.26%	-0.15
nginx	42,105	4.24%	43,684	4.40%	0.16
Google	20,575	2.07%	20,843	2.10%	0.03

The above data was taken from NET craft Do visit their site for more.