🆚 Cowboy vs. Microsoft IIS
- 📈 Microsoft IIS is much more popular than Cowboy.
- 🌍 Microsoft IIS is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Web server
Web server
About
Cowboy is a small, fast, and modern HTTP server for 
Erlang that supports 
WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST.
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is an extensible web server developed by Microsoft for 
Windows systems.
It has a modular architecture with standalone components, supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP protocols, enables worker process isolation through application pools, and provides native integration with ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
Headquarters
France
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️IIS Express
Bundled with Windows Server, which is $1,176+
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #18
Web Servers › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Microsoft IIS web server is 127 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Microsoft IIS is more popular than Cowboy in all countries.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Germany
Canada
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Microsoft IIS is more popular than Cowboy in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Health
Travel
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LiteSpeed Web Server🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.