“In the October 2007 survey we received responses from
142,805,398 sites, an increase of 7.6 million sites since last
month. This continues the strong gains seen last month, a rate of
over 5% monthly growth, with MySpace, Microsoft Live.com, and
Google’s Blogger each gained over 1 million sites this month.
Benefitting from the gains at MySpace and Microsoft Live,
Microsoft-IIS now hosts over 50 million sites.“Apache loses 2.8% share this month, partly through the strong
growth at the major blogging systems, and partly due to 2.5 million
domains on Apache expiring at trouble-free.net. Apache has around a
10% market share advantage over IIS now, which is the smallest gap
between the two since IIS was launched in 1996…”