Malaysia’s Anwar says ‘no way’ to US$10 million ransom demand to end airport cyberattack

Joseph Sipalan reports: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday that hackers demanded a US$10 million ransom for a cyberattack that paralysed some operations at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) over the weekend, raising concern… Continue reading Malaysia’s Anwar says ‘no way’ to US$10 million ransom demand to end airport cyberattack

March 2025 Web Server Survey

In the March 2025 survey we received responses from 1,197,680,522 sites across 275,633,322 domains and 13,402,722 web-facing computers. This reflects an increase of 17.0 million sites and 976,381 domains, and a loss of 77,628 web-facing computers.

nginx made the largest gain of 5.1 million sites (+2.12%) this month, increasing its market share to 20.5% (+0.14pp). Cloudflare made the next largest gain of 3.7 million sites (+2.49%).

Apache suffered the largest loss of 451,949 sites (-0.23%) this month, and now accounts for 16.0% (-0.27pp) of sites seen by Netcraft. Microsoft experienced the next largest loss of 189,378 sites (-1.03%).

Vendor news

  • Google Cloud launched a new region in Sweden on March 6th.
  • Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.102, 10.1.39 and 11.05 were released between March 5th and 7th. These versions improve protection against a race condition allowing remote code execution on case insensitive filesystems.
Total number of websites
Web server market share
Developer February 2025 Percent March 2025 Percent Change
nginx 240,182,690 20.34% 245,275,749 20.48% 0.14
Apache 192,401,922 16.30% 191,949,973 16.03% -0.27
Cloudflare 150,432,756 12.74% 154,171,314 12.87% 0.13
OpenResty 111,442,093 9.44% 112,063,651 9.36% -0.08

Web server market share for active sites
Developer February 2025 Percent March 2025 Percent Change
nginx 36,179,069 18.38% 35,283,083 17.89% -0.49
Cloudflare 34,245,606 17.40% 35,122,370 17.81% 0.41
Apache 32,549,711 16.54% 32,140,051 16.30% -0.24
Google 18,744,996 9.52% 19,492,434 9.89% 0.36

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Web server market share for top million busiest sites
Developer February 2025 Percent March 2025 Percent Change
Cloudflare 229,874 22.99% 223,176 22.32% -0.67
nginx 201,058 20.11% 203,732 20.37% 0.27
Apache 178,287 17.83% 179,491 17.95% 0.12
Microsoft 41,612 4.16% 42,049 4.20% 0.04
Web server market share for computers
Developer February 2025 Percent March 2025 Percent Change
nginx 5,319,894 39.46% 5,368,409 40.05% 0.59
Apache 3,079,017 22.84% 3,066,454 22.88% 0.04
Microsoft 1,166,631 8.65% 1,166,997 8.71% 0.05
Web server market share for domains
Developer February 2025 Percent March 2025 Percent Change
Apache 51,860,896 18.88% 51,840,052 18.81% -0.07
nginx 50,684,106 18.45% 50,292,713 18.25% -0.21
OpenResty 47,057,779 17.13% 47,174,160 17.11% -0.02
Cloudflare 28,694,732 10.45% 29,368,444

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