Nginx Nginx and future of the web server

eva2000 · Mar 2, 2017

Interesting article on the future of Nginx web server NGINX and the future of the web server | ZDNet

Web server company NGINX styles itself as "the secret heart of the modern web" and claims to run 60 percent of the busiest websites in the world.

CEO Gus Robertson is an Australian native with big ambitions for the company: while NGINX already has a significant presence in the US, it now plans to expand its public profile around the world. ZDNet recently spoke to Robertson to find out more.
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An Aussie in charge

eva2000 · Mar 2, 2017

Future is bright https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2017/02/27/february-2017-web-server-survey.html

nginx gains sites and computers
nginx had the largest growth of both sites and web-facing computers amongst the major vendors this month, enjoying a gain of 31 million sites and 13,400 computers, while hefty losses by Microsoft and Apache led to the overall losses seen in this month’s survey. Microsoft lost 48 million sites and 9,900 computers, while Apache lost 13 million sites and 85,700 computers.

Much of the loss of web-facing computers using Apache is the result of declining numbers of Western Digital My Cloud personal storage devices being found in Netcraft's survey. These devices allowed consumers to access their files remotely using public hostnames under the wd2go.com domain. This disappearing act might have been influenced by the three My Cloud firmware updates that were released in December – the first of these changed how files are accessed from the My Cloud web and mobile apps, and the other two resolved a security vulnerability related to remote access.

Despite suffering the largest loss, Microsoft web servers power 43.2% of all sites on the internet, more than twice Apache's share. Meanwhile, nginx's growth has increased its own count to 348 million, bringing it to within striking distance of Apache. This highlights a dramatic change in fortunes for Apache, which was comfortably in first place a year ago, but is now under threat of falling into third place.

In terms of web-facing computers, Apache continues to fare well. While its 3% decline is significant in the space of a month, Apache's 2.7 million computers still give it the lion's share of the market (44.1%). This is followed by Microsoft's 1.5 million computers (24.7%), and nginx's 1.2 million (19.2%).

nginx was also the only major vendor to make a gain within the top million busiest sites. Its share grew slightly to 28.34%, while Apache suffered the largest loss of 0.21 percentage points, taking its share down to 41.41%, though Apache maintained its first-place position with a lead of 13.1 percentage points over nginx.
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FYI, every Centmin Mod install adds to Nginx's numbers as server header does report as 'nginx centminmod' so I believe most see it as Nginx

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