IIS wins, Apache loses market share

Netcraft survey: IIS soon to challenge Apache leadership

[RonPK]

Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames. As a result, Windows improves its market share by 1.4% to 34.2%, while Apache slips by 1.7% to 48.4%. Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position.

[news.netcraft.com...]

The second graph, with "Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains", looks pretty dramatic. What could explain the trend? asp.net gaining steam?

[Gibble]

I would say it's .NET. Pre-.NET days, I hated ASP and it's limitations...and would use anything but ASP if given the choice. Today, I choose .NET when given the choice.

...it shocked me too. When .NET came out I kept thinking "This isn't new, they just repackaged what already existed." Which, while true, didn't matter, M$ actually did a damn good job packaging an IDE (VS) with the development technology and allowing rapid, powerful development.

[Wlauzon]

I would say ASP.NET 2.0 specifically. 1.1 offered little over PHP but 2.0+ is a whole new ballgame.

[jtara]

Nothing as exotic as .net. It's due to Microsoft talking GoDaddy and others into using IIS to host parked domains.

[plumsauce]

jtara,

as a long time follower of those surveys, i have to challenge that statement. netcraft usually makes note of changes due to a change in the server brand that domain registrars are using for parking purposes. for this month, they have made no such statement.

in any case, take a look at the third graph, for *active* domains. netcraft defines this graph as representative of non-parked domains returning a http response. apache looks like it's falling off a cliff.

it might not be .net, but it ain't domain registrars either.