🆚 Google Host Server vs. Kestrel
- 📈 Kestrel is noticeably more popular than Google Host Server.
- 🌎 Kestrel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
- 🌎 Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, Brazil, and India.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Host ServerType
Web server
Web server
About
Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
Kestrel is an open-source, cross-platform web server for 
ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, 
Linux, and macOS.
It uses an event-driven, high-performance architecture to handle many concurrent connections, supports HTTP/1.1, 
HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and 
WebSockets, provides HTTPS support, and integrates closely with the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline and configuration system.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #10
Web Servers › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Kestrel web server is 1.7 times more popular than Google Host Server.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Kestrel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China, while Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, Brazil, and India.
United States
Indonesia
Brazil
United Kingdom
India
China
Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Poland
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Vietnam in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Greece in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Kestrel is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Google Host Server is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, general news, and technical, business forums sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Motor Vehicles
Software/Hardware
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.