⚡ Web Servers in the Philippines

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.

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 65.6% of websites from the Philippines.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx with an impressive share of 45.2%, followed by Apache with 32% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 17.7%.

Nginx 45.2%
Apache 32%
LiteSpeed Web Server 17.7%
Microsoft IIS 3.6%
OpenResty 3.2%
Tomcat 0.9%
Google Servlet Engine 0.3%
Google Host Server 0.3%
Caddy 0.3%
Google Front End 0.3%
Tengine 0.3%
Lighttpd 0.1%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Pepyaka 0.09%
Hiawatha 0.09%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. Google Servlet Engine ^(-1)
8. Google Host Server ^(-2)
10. Google Front End ^(-3)
12. Lighttpd ^(-4)
15. Hiawatha ^(-12)
17. Cowboy ^(-1)
19. Jetty ^(-9)
20. Domino Web Server ^(-5)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 21 web servers used on sites from the Philippines, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	45.2%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	32%
3	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance, high-scalability web server that can be used as a drop-in replacement for Apache. FreeOpen source$10+/month	17.7%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	3.6%
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	3.2%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.9%
7	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.3%
8	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.3%
9	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	0.3%
10	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.3%
11	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.1%
14	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.09%
15	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.09%
16	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core. FreeOpen source	0.09%
17	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.06%
18	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.03%
19	Jetty Brussels, Belgium A scalable and memory efficient Java web server and servlet container that supports HTTP/1,2,3 and WebSocket protocols. FreeOpen source	0.03%
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.	0.03%
21	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 5,348 websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.