⚡ Web Servers in Iran

Web servers are specialized computer programs that process requests from users' browsers to websites on the Internet and deliver web content by serving files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media assets.

Iran is a Western Asian country with a population of over 89 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 60.6% of websites from Iran.

Statistics based on 21K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top web servers in Iran in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is LiteSpeed Web Server with an impressive share of 41.8%, followed by Nginx with 36.2% and Microsoft IIS with 12.3%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top servers that are more popular in Iran than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 16 web servers used on sites from Iran, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
LiteSpeed Web Server
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

A high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations.

FreeOpen source$10+/month
2
Nginx
Seattle, Washington, United States

A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

FreeOpen source$3,500+/year
3
Microsoft IIS
Redmond, Washington, United States

An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems.

Free$$$
4
Apache
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995.

FreeOpen source
5
OpenResty
Millbrae, California, United States

An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

FreeOpen source
6
Kestrel
Redmond, Washington, United States

An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

FreeOpen source
7
Caddy
Vienna, Austria

An open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.

FreeOpen source
8
Tomcat
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

FreeOpen source
9
Phusion Passenger
Apeldoorn, Netherlands

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

FreeOpen source$43.32+/month
10
Google Servlet Engine
Mountain View, California, United States

A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.
11
Tengine
Hangzhou, China

An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

FreeOpen source
12
Hiawatha
Netherlands

An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks.

FreeOpen source
13
Google Front End
Mountain View, California, United States

A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.
14
Gunicorn
Creil, France

A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.

FreeOpen source
15
Google Host Server
Mountain View, California, United States

A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
16
Lighttpd
Germany

An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.

FreeOpen source

🗃️ About This Data