About the Apache Web Server

Apache is the most widely used web server on the Internet today, according to a Netcraft survey of active websites in July 2011, which is shown in Table 23.1 (from http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/07/08/july-2011-web-server-survey.html).

Table 23.1. Netcraft Survey Results (July 2011)

Server	Number	Percent Share
Apache	224,484,657	64.88%
Microsoft	58,213,391	16.82%
nginx	22,668,760	6.55%
Google	15,958,106	4.61%