⚡ Web Servers in Korea

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.

Korea is an East Asian country with a population of around 52 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 76.9% of websites from Korea.

Statistics based on 28K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache with an impressive share of 38.7%, followed by Nginx with 32.6% and OpenResty with 20.1%.

Apache 38.7%
Nginx 32.6%
OpenResty 20.1%
Microsoft IIS 7%
LiteSpeed Web Server 2%
Tomcat 1.7%
Oracle WebLogic Server 0.1%
Pepyaka 0.1%
Caddy 0.08%
Google Servlet Engine 0.07%
Kestrel 0.05%
Google Host Server 0.05%
Hiawatha 0.04%
Phusion Passenger 0.04%
Gunicorn 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
3. OpenResty ^(-2)
7. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-18)
8. Pepyaka ^(-5)
13. Hiawatha ^(-13)
16. Oracle HTTP Server ^(-19)
17. WebSphere Application Server ^(-6)
18. Oracle iPlanet Web Server ^(-1)
20. Domino Web Server ^(-4)
21. Oracle Application Server ^(-11)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 web servers used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	38.7%
2	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	32.6%
3	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	20.1%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	7%
5	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for , using the same configuration files and control panel integrations. FreeOpen source$10+/month	2%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	1.7%
7	Oracle WebLogic Server Austin, Texas, United States Oracle WebLogic Server an enterprise-grade application server used for developing, deploying, and running applications built on Java EE for on-premises and in the cloud. $10,000+/processor	0.1%
8	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.1%
9	Caddy Vienna, Austria An open-source multi-platform web server written in with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols. FreeOpen source	0.08%
10	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.07%
11	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	0.05%
12	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.05%
13	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.04%
14	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.04%
15	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.04%
16	Oracle HTTP Server Austin, Texas, United States A web server component for Oracle Fusion Middleware, based on the open-source Apache HTTP Server.	0.03%
17	WebSphere Application Server Armonk, New York, United States A flexible, secure Java server runtime environment designed to accelerate the delivery of enterprise applications. Free$759+/month	0.03%
18	Oracle iPlanet Web Server Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise web server designed for medium and large business applications and high-volume Java-based web environments. Free	0.02%
19	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.02%
20	Domino Web Server Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Comes with Domino and allows organizations to serve pages stored in the file system or in a Domino database.	0.02%
21	Oracle Application Server Austin, Texas, United States A completely standards-based application server that provides a comprehensive and fully integrated platform for running Web sites, J2EE applications, and Web services. $$$	0.02%
22	Resin San Diego, California, United States A Java EE-certified application server. Free$849+/year	0.01%
23	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%
24	Static File Front End Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.01%
25	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.009%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

🗃️ 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 28,557 websites from Korea.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.