Nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server among the top 10,000 sites

Couldn&#x27;t these results be skewed because Nginx is often used as a reverse proxy?<p>If there is Apache or something custom behind Nginx it will show up as Nginx I guess. I do not see this issue adressed and it might cause significant skew if you look at the top websites (since they will more often deploy these kinds of tricks)

There are different statistics with different methods and outcomes. For example the netcraft server survey over 975,262,468 sites shows a market share of Apache: 37.58%, IIS 33.41%, nginx 14.60%. Source: <a href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.netcraft.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;category&#x2F;web-server-survey...</a>

I know this is off-topic but I&#x27;m also surprised by Google Server&#x27;s popularity. Can 10% of the top 1000 web-sites really be serviced by Google? You&#x27;ve got to pay for the reports, but I wonder if people using Google&#x27;s CDN for static assets could be skewing those results. Does anyone have insight into the methodology used to collect this data?

Any opinions on Nginx being more difficult to setup&#x2F;run than Apache? I&#x27;m considering switching, but I really have enough overhead to deal with!

&quot;We didn&#x27;t get the answer we wanted.&quot;<p>&quot;Then reduce the sample size!&quot;

We abandoned Apache as we found configuring Tomcat with Apache to be a major pain whereas configuring NGINX with Tomcat or other J2EE application servers is almost a no-brainer. Ditto with SSL termination. Since then we&#x27;ve moved all static file serving to NGINX as having both Apache and NGINX did not make sense. I know that a lot of other JVM shops did the same.

can someone link up a good &quot;nginx for newbies&quot; type resource for someone who is familiar with programming?

i note postfix usurped sendmail much faster.

Curious how Node isn’t even mentioned. Interesting how many years until it catches up.

How can I tell, by visiting a site, what web server is being used?

Did anyone else pause when they read the title line...<p>&quot;Usage of web servers broken down by ranking&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m picturing a graph of the most commonly broken web servers for half a second.

I&#x27;m confused by this title and the article here.<p>The graph in the linked shows that &quot;Apache is used by 60.5% of all the websites.&quot; while nginx is at 20.7%...<p>How could these numbers possibly mean that nginx has replaced Apache as the most used web server? When is 60.5% more than 20.7%? IS it opposite day?