June 16, 2004

The latest hosting provider server count shows that numbers of web facing computers found by the Web Server report have increased by 12% in the past 6 months. The chart below shows that since March 2001, the numbers of IP addresses have increased by only 11%, while computers have broadly sustained an increasing trend, rising by 106% in the same period.

This primarily reflects increased use of HTTP 1.1 virtual hosting for shared hosting, and the continuing development and expansion of the web . Since 1999, IP addresses have increased by 103%, while web facing computers have increased by 355%.

42% of the increase in the past 6 months was in the Americas, with EMEA accounting for 34% of the growth. EMEA now accounts for 33% of the web facing servers, an increase of 5% since March 2001.

Source: Netcraft