The Internet is growing on a faster rate than ever before and is quickly approaching a size of 150 million websites, according to survey results released by Netcraft.

Netcraft said that it detected 142,805,398 web sites during its monthly web server survey. The October result is about 7.6 million sites higher than in the previous month. The internet is currently growing at a rate of 5% a month and is adding more sites per month than in any other month in the survey’s history. The main drivers behind this new growth are MySpace, Microsoft Live and Google Blogger, which gained more than 1 million sites each in the last month alone.

Apache is, according to Netcraft, installed on 47.73% of web servers, which is down from 60.64% in January (Apache’s all-time high was in November 2005 with a share of 70.98%). In the same time frame, Microsoft IIS was able to increase its share from 30.67% to 37.13% in the same time frame.