{"id":1348,"date":"2016-03-09T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2018-07-12T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T18:52:11","slug":"is-nginx-the-future-of-web-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2016\/03\/is-nginx-the-future-of-web-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"NGINX the Future of Web Servers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been keeping track of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.netcraft.com\/archives\/2016\/02\/22\/february-2016-web-server-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netcraft&#8217;s<\/a> web server surveys you&#8217;ve probably remembered a few trends, predictions and surprises in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t kept track, here&#8217;s a brief recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone thought NGINX would overtake Microsoft as the 2nd most used web server in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>That never happened. It came awfully close to occurring in 2013, but Microsoft had a sudden increase in popularity (and market share).<\/li>\n<li>Along with Microsoft&#8217;s Rise in market share came a surprisingly quick loss in popularity for Apache.<\/li>\n<li>Towards the End of 2014 Microsoft even overtook Apache!<\/li>\n<li>After a few months on top, Microsoft returned to its 2nd place position and everything remained the same for pretty much all of 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, we are looking at another crazy year for web servers, and it could end with Microsoft becoming the most popular web server over Apache. Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpronto.com\/spu\/2016\/01\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-windows-server-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Server 2016<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0will determine whether Microsoft keeps its lead over Apache.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>So how does all of this relate to NGINX?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As Apache and Microsoft Duke it out for the number one spot, NGINX is silently increasing it&#8217;s market share and popularity. It&#8217;s already gaining a very strong in the busiest websites, being the most popular web server in the busiest 100,000 websites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs.png\" alt=\"NGINX Market Share in Busiest Websites\" width=\"962\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs.png 962w, https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/top-sites-w3techs-960x434.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a>If we take a look at the growth data from previous years, we can see that NGINX has a yearly increase of about 1.67%. It&#8217;s safe to assume that this upward trend will continue, and with Apache plummeting so quickly we predict that NGINX will overtake Apache as the number 2 web server in the next 3 years. Assuming nothing crazy happens these are our predictions for a web server market share up to 2020:<\/p>\n<h2>Predictions for Web Server Market Share:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>By the End of 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apache: 26%<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft: 33%<\/p>\n<p>NGINX: 17%<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the End of 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apache: 23%<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft: 31%<\/p>\n<p>NGINX: 19%<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the End of 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apache: 20%<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft: 30%<\/p>\n<p>NGINX: 20%<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the End of 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apache: 19%<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft: 30%<\/p>\n<p>NGINX: 21%<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the End of 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apache: 17%<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft: 30%<\/p>\n<p>NGINX: 23%<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, these predictions could very highly. We have yet to see whether Windows Server 2016 will be a success yet (though we believe it will) and with an increasing popularity of other web servers we could see a new, and unexpected player emerge any year. Right now, the market is poised to be disrupted, and NGINX is in a good position to do so, but in theory, another web server could arrive and gain popularity too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\">ServerPronto<\/a> offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been keeping track of Netcraft&#8217;s web server surveys you&#8217;ve probably remembered a few trends, predictions and surprises in the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[123,17,112,22,39,18],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-web-servers","tag-cloud","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-serverpronto","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}