Netcraft February 2011Survey Results

Netcraft, a Web analytics firm, reported the results of their February 2011 survey, which ‎received responses from as many as 284,842,077 sites.
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The highest increase in market share and absolute growth was recorded by Apache, with ‎‎9.6 million new hostnames and a corresponding 1 percentage point addition in market ‎share, for the second time in succession. The company had seen an increase of 10.1 ‎million hostnames previously. Apache is in a gradual ascending mode since January ‎‎2010. United States contributed the maximum hostnames in February, with an increase of ‎‎7 million new Apache hostnames. The highest contributions to Apache came from ‎AmeriNOC and SoftLayer with 4.6 million and 1.3 million, respectively. In Netherlands ‎the Axoft group contributed to a net gain of 817,000 hostnames for the Apache Group.‎ nginx and lighttpd, were the other developers whose market share remained stagnant as a ‎result of the increases in hostnames found for the other major web server vendors.‎

Microsoft and Google saw a decline in the number of hostnames and market share this ‎month. Microsoft saw a drop of 239,000 hostnames in Germany alone.‎