According to Netcraft’s June 2009 Web Server Survey the nginx web server has more than 3.6% of the worldwide market share which makes it the fifth most used web server worldwide. Among the million busiest sites the nginx is doing even better: it is on the third place (after Apache and Microsoft). Well, it is very impressive! And I am even more impressed by the fact that it has been developing by just one guy, Igor Sysoev of Rambler (a Russian web search engine).
P.S. Technically, it should be noted that, as far as I know, the nginx is often used as a front-end web server, i.e., the nginx is serving a static content itself and passes requests for dynamic content to a back-end Apache server. So, this means that the sizable fraction of abovementioned 3.6% of servers are actually using the nginx+Apache rather than the nginx only.
Tags: statistics, web
