#Web server os market share windows#
Based on this stats, we can safely say that most businesses choose Linux over Windows when it comes to hosting websites. Very popular websites such as Aol.com,, ,, or are hosted on Linux. More specifically Ubuntu makes 33.9% of that share, followed by Debian at 31.5 and CentOS with 20.6%. Out of that 54.3% share is taken by Linux systems. Linux is the operating system which is installed on 66.9% of web servers is Unix. However reliable these may be, these websites are visited by so many visitors that this on its own is probably skewing the usage stats and the actual market share is very likely even lower. As we can see, the most famous are owned by Microsoft, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Microsoft is using their OS to run their web servers. Some of the favorite sites using Windows are, , Msn.com,, ,, and. Windows is on the other hand used by 33.1% of all the websites whose operating system we know.” (Q-Success, 2016). W3Techs reports that as of August 2016, “Unix is used by 66.9% of all the websites whose operating system we know.
Currently, the market share seems to favor Linux over Microsoft (Figure 1). One of the best indicators of which system is better suited for serving websites is the OS market share for web servers. That said, operating system that provides the web server role should be capable of flawlessly executing most of the rich web applications available on the market, as well as a plethora of frameworks and front end programming languages. According to sources like eMarketer, e-commerce is the only trillion-dollar industry growing at a double-digit percentage each year.” Ecommerce (2014). “The e-commerce market is enormous, growing extremely fast, and showing no signs of slowing down. Amongst some of the essential functions of the Internet web server is its capability to serve the dynamic content of a web-based e-commerce application. The web server is an essential part of a technical stack and server architecture, fulfilling many critical roles. Nowadays, web servers are no longer the simple services capable of just displaying the textual content. Let’s go over some of the motivations for the selection of criteria above. Comparison Criteriaįollowing are the three criteria that I consider essential when it comes to selecting the best operating system for a web server. Both of these OS’s are capable of functioning as a network server, but for this article, I’ll be referring to a server, whose primary function is that of a web server (a system that is designed to host the websites). I’ll compare two competing operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server and Linux (Unix based). In this article, I’ll describe my personal selection of the top three most important criteria for selecting a server operating system.
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