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April 2014 Web Server Survey

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If someone is shocked viewing the Market share of all sites and thinks it's tltr, here is the relevant snip:

  Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are 
  hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which 
  was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in  
  February. [...] Many of the new IIS sites hosted by Nobis 
  Technology Group feature similar content and form part of 
  a Chinese link farm.

Market share of active sites:

  52% Apache
  14% nginx
  11% Microsoft
  08% Google

>> Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in February.

Many of the spammer/hacker CIDR's I block from my server are owned by Nobis. I thought that's interesting to compare.

nginx gained on 'active sites' and the 'top million sites' metrics. They have an interesting way of determining active sites: http://www.netcraft.com/active-sites/

Is there a reason we're looking at last months survey instead of this months?

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/05/07/may-2014-web-se...

Always wondering: Why are there so many sites using Google HTTP servers? Are there really that many deployments of Google Sites or App Engine? Difficult to imagine. What am I missing?

Google is in the netcraft stats since July 2007. They rebranded their Apache installations as "Google" with no version info back then (Google.com, BlogSpot.com, Youtube.com, GMail.com, etc.). It was in the media at that time and you can clearly see the drop in Apache installations in mid 2007. Don't forget Google services are available in various language domains like Google.co.uk, Google.de, etc. And Google Sites servers launched in 2007. Google App Engine initial release was in April 2008.

Blogger is probably what I was missing, certainly a lot of x.blogspot.x sites out there. Thanks!

Is it really just re-branded Apache? It seems like vanilla Apache isn't capable of the low response times that Google has. What Apache extensions/modifications does Google use?

Who said Apache isn't capable of low response times?

It seems incapable of the lowest response times, which it seems like Google has. Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. In my experience nginx, which keeps several worker processes open and processes requests asynchronously is much faster.

Apache has a prefork MPM procesas model that allows it to run in the same way.

I don't know much about it, but I would think that event based mpm would be the fastest.

Depends on what you need to do. Apache has it all:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html

Yep that's what I meant. I believe event based would be faster than the prefork that pling suggested.

> Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead.

Apache does not fork a new process to handle a request. Not even in prefork mode.

Back in 2007, Apache, Lighttpd (Youtube) and custom Java server ("faster than Tomcat"). Nowadays some services probably based on nginx, others written in-house and some may still be on forked Apache.

  The Google Web Server - a custom server used only by 
  Google itself - was originally built from open-source 
  Apache code, according to a former Google employee.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/google_web_server_ba...

Amongst Google's web server's special sauce is the QUIC protocol.

n00b question: My Node hosting on Modulus falls under the "Other" category, right?

no, just read the HTTP header of your website in your browsers developer tools (F12 short cut) in the network tab, there you can usually find the server software. or use a free online service that shows you the HTTP header of an URL.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org

  Server: Apache

There is no Server field in the HTTP response of my site.

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