⚡ Web Servers in Russia

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.

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 74.3% of websites from Russia.

Statistics based on 91K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Nginx, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 84.3% share.
It is followed by Apache with 8.9% and OpenResty with 3.5%.

Nginx 84.3%
Apache 8.9%
OpenResty 3.5%
LiteSpeed Web Server 2.1%
Microsoft IIS 1.1%
Lighttpd 0.7%
Angie 0.6%
Caddy 0.3%
Phusion Passenger 0.1%
Kestrel 0.06%
Tengine 0.05%
Tomcat 0.04%
Google Servlet Engine 0.03%
Gunicorn 0.03%
Google Host Server 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. OpenResty ^(-2)
6. Lighttpd ^(-10)
7. Angie ^(-10)
9. Phusion Passenger ^(-4)
10. Kestrel ^(-1)
14. Gunicorn ^(-1)
17. Domino Web Server ^(-9)
18. GlassFish ^(-13)
20. Tornado ^(-12)
22. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-3)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 web servers used on sites from Russia, 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	84.3%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	8.9%
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	3.5%
4	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	2.1%
5	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	1.1%
6	Lighttpd Germany An open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage. FreeOpen source	0.7%
7	Angie Moscow, Russia An efficient web server that was forked from Nginx by its former developers. FreeOpen source$$$	0.6%
8	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%
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	0.1%
10	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	0.06%
11	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.05%
12	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.04%
13	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.03%
14	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%
15	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.02%
16	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.01%
17	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.	0.007%
18	GlassFish Brussels, Belgium A complete application server that implements the Jakarta EE specification. FreeOpen source	0.006%
19	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.004%
20	Tornado A scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.	0.004%
21	Google Web Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.004%
22	Oracle WebLogic Server Austin, Texas, United States 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	0.003%
23	OpenBSD httpd Edmonton, Alberta, Canada A lightweight web server included with the OpenBSD operating system. Free	0.003%
24	Hiawatha Netherlands An open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks. FreeOpen source	0.003%
25	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. $$$	0.003%

👉 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 91,714 websites from Russia.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on April 11, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.