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Apache HTTP Server widens market-share lead over Microsoft IIS

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15 pointschrisaycock7 comments

Latest market share stats:

  Apache - 59.4%
  Microsoft - 22.2%
  Nginx - 7.0%
  Google web server (mostly Blogger) - 5.9%
  Lighttpd - 0.5%

I'd like to be rooting for Apache but practically speaking I'm now using lighter-weight webservers (with nginx or varnish as a front-proxy).

Using Apache taught me a lot, but I expect that by next year I probably will have only one Apache server (the one built-in to MacOS X).

I'm actually somewhat mystified that the number of IIS instances is that high.

In addition to Microsoft's own sites, there are hosting services like GoDaddy that use IIS across many of their customers' sites.

IIS 7 isn't entirely evil software. They've improved it a lot over the years.

We've noticed that even with fewer servers we can get better performance on the same load after migrating to IIS 7.5 from IIS 6.

What' driving the growth? The ease of deploying virtual applications (e.g. Turnkey Linux) to services like EC2?