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Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market, chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month. Apache had a decline of 429K hostnames, and loses 3.5% to 61.25%.

Apache's lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months...

The largest movement of sites from Apache to IIS was once again at Go Daddy, with over 1.6M hostnames moving from Apache to IIS this month. While those parked domains were a major factor in Microsoft's gains, Windows also saw solid growth in active sites, hostnames that contain content and likely to represent developed web sites.

Blogging services enjoyed strong growth, paced by Google's Blogger, which added more than 660K hostnames. The global nature of the blogging phenomenon was seen in large increases in blogs hosted at Germany's Intergenia AG and Japan's Excite.co.jp, both of which run on Windows web servers. Windows servers also got a boost from Microsoft's Office Live service, as it began to open its beta offering to more users.