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The Netcraft Web Server Survey turns 10 years old this month, and marks another milestone, finding over 70 million Web sites on the Internet. Phew! That's a lot of Web sites.

The first Netcraft survey in August 1995 found 18,957 hosts, with the NCSA web server dominating with 57 percent market share, leading CERN (19%) and a newcomer named Apache (3.5%). Microsoft's Internet Information Server launched in February 1996, and by the survey's fifth birthday the server market was largely divided up between Apache (62%) and IIS (19%).

Apache continues its dominance, weighing in at just under 70% of all hostnames.