⚡ Web Servers in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 83.7% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Apache, which dominates the market with a substantial 54.4% share.
It is followed by Nginx with 23.1% and LiteSpeed Web Server with 17.3%.

Apache 54.4%
Nginx 23.1%
LiteSpeed Web Server 17.3%
Microsoft IIS 5.9%
OpenResty 0.5%
Tomcat 0.4%
Caddy 0.3%
Google Front End 0.2%
Pepyaka 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.07%
Kestrel 0.07%
WebSphere Application Server 0.04%
Oracle WebLogic Server 0.04%
Zope 0.03%
Google Host Server 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Apache ^(-1)
8. Google Front End ^(-4)
9. Pepyaka ^(-5)
10. Phusion Passenger ^(-3)
12. WebSphere Application Server ^(-12)
13. Oracle WebLogic Server ^(-12)
14. Zope ^(-6)
19. Jetty ^(-9)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 19 web servers used on sites from South Africa, 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	54.4%
2	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	23.1%
3	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	17.3%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	5.9%
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	0.5%
6	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications. FreeOpen source	0.4%
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	0.3%
8	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States A reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.	0.2%
9	Pepyaka Tel Aviv, Israel A web server supposedly based on Nginx and used by the Wix website building platform.	0.2%
10	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$43.32+/month	0.07%
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	0.07%
12	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	0.04%
13	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	0.04%
14	Zope Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source web application server and web framework written in Python. 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	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	Tengine Hangzhou, China An open-source web server based on Nginx and developed by the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. FreeOpen source	0.01%
18	Cowboy France A small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST. FreeOpen source	0.007%
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	0.007%

👉 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 18,135 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 41 web servers across the web.
Of these, 19 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.