According to figures from Netcraft Microsoft gained 48 million sites this month, increasing its total by 19 per cent



From Fudzilla:

icrosoft's market share is now only 5.4 percentage points lower than Apache's, which is the closest it has ever been. If recent trends continue, Microsoft could overtake Apache within the next few months, ending Apache's 17-year reign as the most common web server. Overall, nginx powers 17.5 per cent of the top million sites.

Much of Microsoft’s growth is due to new sites hosted by Nobis Technology it seems that Vole is starting to become more aggressive in flogging its products after losing ground to the Open Sauce Apache in the first place. To be fair Apache still has a huge install base and it could easily become popular again.

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