What Is the Most Popular Web Server Application in 2021?

1

nginx

This gives Apache the edge over Nginx on GNU/Linux devices when looking at sheer numbers. If we had to make a prediction, however, it would be that Nginx will outpace Apache in the next couple of years on Linux machines as well.

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2

Apache

Despite being bundled with most modern Microsoft software, IIS loses out to Apache on its own devices. The main selling point here is performance. While IIS has kept up with Apache in recent times, Apache has historically been performing much better, which still gives it an edge over IIS.

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3

Microsoft IIS

Despite being bundled with most modern Microsoft software, IIS loses out to Apache on its own devices. The main selling point here is performance. While IIS has kept up with Apache in recent times, Apache has historically been performing much better, which still gives it an edge over IIS.

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Following in fourth place with “only” 3.5% of all active websites hosted on it is Google’s GWS. Considering GWS is only used internally within Google’s infrastructure, this number becomes much more impressive. Essentially, this statistic tells us that 3.5% of the current internet is under Google’s direct control.