# Congrats to nginx - now the most used webserver in the top 1000 websites **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [July 3, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/congrats-to-nginx-now-the-most-used-webserver-in-the-top-1000-websites/245717 "2013-07-03T22:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/congrats-to-nginx-now-the-most-used-webserver-in-the-top-1000-websites/245717/1 "2013-07-03T22:06:43Z")
[http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx\_just\_became\_the\_most\_used\_web\_server\_among\_the\_top\_1000\_websites](http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_just_became_the_most_used_web_server_among_the_top_1000_websites) ---
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/congrats-to-nginx-now-the-most-used-webserver-in-the-top-1000-websites/245717/2 "2013-07-05T15:51:57Z")
Congrats Igor and Nginx team. 🙂 It just matter of time before Nginx becomes #1 in Top 10,000 and eventually #1 overall. Most cheap hosting companies are run by non-techie people (using resellers tool) who don’t understand benefit of Nginx and/or do not have control on server softwares! Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Congrats to nginx - now the most used webserver in the top 1000 websites](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,240555,240602#msg-240602)** > > http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx\_just\_became\_the\_most\_used\_web\_server\_among\_the\_top\_1000\_websites \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx