Nginx Netcraft February 2018 Web Server Survey

eva2000 · Feb 14, 2018

Netcraft's February 2018 Web Server Survey is out February 2018 Web Server Survey | Netcraft

Interesting about Cloudflare's changed server header signature.

Cloudflare-nginx migration underway
For several years, every edge machine in Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN) exhibited the Server: cloudflare-nginx HTTP response header. This reflected the fact that its custom software stack was based on nginx – but this month's survey saw a vast swathe of websites switching to a new Server: cloudflare header.

Although nginx remains part of Cloudflare's stack, it plays less of a role than it once did. The code that handles HTTP requests on Cloudflare's machines now goes far beyond the capabilities of nginx alone, and Cloudflare also hints that it will most likely end up writing its own caching software instead of using nginx.

In line with Cloudflare's reasoning, Netcraft's survey treats the new cloudflare server as a distinct product to nginx, and this has taken a chunk out of nginx's share in the top million sites. The new cloudflare server already accounts for 5.2% of the top million sites, and this share will undoubtedly increase next month.

The transition to the new cloudflare server banner started on 18 December 2017, and the February 2018 survey found nearly 60% of Cloudflare's sites using the new banner. It is likely that they will all use the new banner by next month's survey.
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One of my fav's LiteSpeed

OpenLiteSpeed 1.5.0 RC1 was released on 2 February, adding new Multi-Thread APIs and a module developer guide. This followed the 10 January release of 1.4.29, which is currently the latest stable version of the freely available open source server. Just over 2.5 million domains are currently using OpenLiteSpeed or the commercially available LiteSpeed Web Server product. Both products use the same LiteSpeed server banner and do not reveal version numbers.
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