🆚 Google Host Server vs. Microsoft IIS
- 📈 Microsoft IIS is much more popular than Google Host Server.
- 🌎 Microsoft IIS is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia and Burkina Faso.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ 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.
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
Mountain View, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️IIS Express
Bundled with Windows Server, which is $1,176+
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #10
Web Servers › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Microsoft IIS web server is 26 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.
Microsoft IIS is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, while Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia and Burkina Faso.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Brazil
Germany
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bangladesh 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 Greece 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 Google Host Server 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Nginx
Google Front End
Apache
LiteSpeed Web Server
OpenResty🗃️ 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.