February 2014 Web Server Survey : Microsoft could overtake Apache within the next few months.

This midday, Connectikpeople.co has captured a new survey for you. We talk about the recent February 2014 Web Server Survey from Netcraft, which shows that, Microsoft could overtake Apache within the next few months, ending Apache's 17+ year reign as the most common web server.

Connectikpeople.co observes that, in the February 2014 survey Netcraft received about responses from 920,102,079 sites, over 58 million morethan last month.

According to the February 2014 Web Server Survey , Microsoft gained a staggering 48 million sites this month, increasing its total by 19%, most of this growth is attributable to new sites hosted by Nobis Technology Group.

nginx also made a large gain of 14 million sites, whereas Apache fell by 7 million. Microsoft's share grows by 3.38 percentage points to 32.8% (302 million sites) while Apache's has fallen by 3.41 to 38.2% (352 million sites).

For the first time, Microsoft's market share is henceforth 5.4 percentage points lower than Apache's. Apache is faring much better in both the active sites and top million sites datasets, however, where it is still dominating with just over half of the market

share in both metrics.

Nearly 2% of the top million websites are now being served by CloudFlare's customised version of nginx (cloudflare-nginx), which it uses to serve web content via its globally distributed CDN edge nodes.

According to this recent February 2014 Web Server Survey more than a thousand of the top million sites migrate to cloudflare-nginx from other web server software. Henceforth nginx powers 17.5% of the top million sites.

The number of sites using the .pw country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) grew by more than half this month, reaching 10M sites in total. This ccTLD is assigned to Palau, but the .pw registry has branded the domain as the Professional Web and allows domains to be registered by the general public, regardless of which country they are in. 97% of this month's new .pw sites are hosted in the US (87% at Nobis Technology Group alone), and 2.7 million of them are running on Windows.