In the December 2008 survey, we received responses from 186,727,854 sites. This total has grown by 1.56 million sites since last month.
Apache shows the largest growth this month, gaining a further 2.47 million sites. Just over half of this growth is due to the net hostname growth at ThePlanet.com, which once again includes a large number of .pl domains. Many of these new sites redirect to another site hosted by ThePlanet.com, which appears to offer PornTube videos, but in fact directs visitors towards a site which Google believes to be malware .
Yahoo! Traffic Server shows another large gain since it was uncloaked at Yahoo! last month . This month's survey now finds 1.68 million sites running on YTS, which is used exclusively by Yahoo! as a reverse proxy and connection management server for a number of its services.
nginx shows the 3rd largest growth this month, climbing by more than 10% to reach 3.35 million sites. This server now has nearly 1.8% of the worldwide market share — an impressive feat, given that it is the work of just one man, Igor Sysoev .
Developer | Nov-08 | Share | Dec-08 | Share | Change |
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Apache | 93,207,591 | 50.34% | 95,678,052 | 51.24% | 0.90 |
Microsoft | 63,871,279 | 34.49% | 63,126,940 | 33.81% | -0.69 |
10,996,941 | 5.94% | 10,455,103 | 5.60% | -0.34 | |
nginx | 3,023,369 | 1.63% | 3,354,329 | 1.80% | 0.16 |
lighttpd | 3,030,958 | 1.64% | 3,046,333 | 1.63% | -0.01 |