Nginx Gaining Web Server Share

According to web server stats vendor Netcraft's January 2012 survey, there are now nearly 583 million sites on the Internet. The January survey figure represents an increase of 27.2 million sites over the December 2011 figures, for a 4.9 percent gain.
The biggest winner in terms of web servers appears to be the open source nginx server. During the past month, nginx added 6.9 million new hostnames. In total, Netcraft's January 2012 survey found just over 56 million hostnames running on nginx, giving the open source web server upstart a 9.63 percent share.
Nginx has emerged in recent years as a faster alternative to Apache HTTP for those looking for a viable open source web server. In October 2011, the commercial Nginx company behind the open source project raised $3 million in funding to help fuel its efforts.
"For NGINX getting to the 2nd place in "Active Domains" Netcraft category is an important milestone, however we really see an even more important one in getting to number across "All Domains" (where Microsoft IIS is currently at 14.46 percent and we are at 9.63 percent according to Netcraft),"