The open sourced web server project Nginx is overtakes Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server) as No.2 webserver position. According to Netcraft’s January 2012 Web Server Survey, Nginx over the past month has gained market share among all websites, whereas competitors Apache, Microsoft, and Google each lost share.
Nginx, which debuted in 2004 and was designed for high-volume Web traffic, runs on some 25 percent of the world’s 1,000 busiest websites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, Hulu, Dropbox, and WordPress. Nginx last October received $3 million in funding from venture capital firms MSD Capital, the Dell CEO’s private investment company as well as BV Capital and Runa Capital.
Nginx is now runs more than 12% of all active websites worldwide. It’s because the top ranked webserver Apache declined from last years and 2nd Ranked IIS also declined over the last few months.
So finally the current overall market share of top ranked webservers are Apache – 64.4%, Microsoft IIS – 14.99%, Nginx – 8.49%, and Google 2.4%.
