🆚 Google Host Server vs. Nginx

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web server
Web server

About

Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #10
Web Servers › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 215 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.

Nginx is more popular than Google Host Server in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than Google Host Server in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,170
keralalotteries.net
#5,245
#12,106
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