Milestone: #4 on Netcraft

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:27 +0000, Luigi Perroti wrote:
> Evan Miller <emmiller+gmane at ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > I usually pretend not to care about such things, but Igor deserves some 
> > congratulations here...
> > 
> > http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200806/
> > 
> > 1. Apache - 84 million domains
> > 2. Microsoft IIS - 61 million
> > 3. Google - 10 million
> > 4. nginx - 2 million
> 
> I think this big jump is related to the fact that wordpress.com dropped
> litespeed for nginx.

Absolutely.

> I suppose that (for now) lighttpd is still more popular than nginx if you don't
> consider the wordpress bias.

Of course not.  Virtual hosts are counted for all servers, not just
Nginx. You'll notice that Lighttpd made a huge jump back in Feb 2007
when it was picked up by a company hosting thousands of domains (I
forget who it was, but I'm sure someone here can recall):

01.2007 lighttpd 172819
02.2007 lighttpd 702712

There is no "bias".  The reports are equally precise and equally
misleading for all server software.

Regards,
Cliff