Apache and Nginx are the big names on the Linux side, with a smattering of other options such as Lighttpd and Cherokee. On Windows, you can run Apache and a few others, but the overwhelming ...

According to Netcraft’s January 2012 Web Server survey, Nginx claimed 12.18% of the market after being deployed on 1.9 million websites during December 2011, overtaking Microsoft IIS on 12.18%.