What is Web server?

Quote from: Anjelina on October 04, 2017, 02:20:06 AM
What is Web server?

In response to the users request web servers provide the web pages. Where the web server is just a program, which uses HTTP to serve the files.

A Web server is a program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Web pages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers' HTTP clients. Dedicated computers and appliances may be referred to as Web servers as well.

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A web server is a computer system that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. The term can refer to the entire system, or specifically to the software that accepts and supervises the HTTP requests.

A web server is simply a computer program that dispenses web pages as they are requested. The machine the program runs on is usually also called a server, and the two references are interchangeable in everyday conversation. When someone sits down at a computer and enters an address into an internet browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox, the browser sends a request off into the internet asking to view the web page found at that address.

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A web server is a computer system that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. The term can refer to the entire system, or specifically to the software that accepts and supervises the HTTP requests.

Web server is a computer where the web content is stored. Basically, web server is used to host the websites but there exist other web servers also such as gaming, storage, FTP, email etc.

A web server is a PC that runs sites. It's a PC program that conveys site pages as they are demanded.
a web server also supports SMTP  protocol for emailing and for file transfer and storage.

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To run a website, you need the place where people can access it. That's your web server The web server keeps your site online and people can access it. It lives at 24x7 and many times the rooms full of these machines are for a person who likes things like server and storage, the web server is candy eye and the data center is conditioned.

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A web server is a computer that runs websites. It's a computer program that distributes web pages as they are requisitioned. The basic objective of the web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to the users. This intercommunication is done using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). These web pages are mostly static content that includes HTML documents, images, style sheets, test etc. Apart from HTTP, a web server also supports SMTP (Simple Mail transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol for emailing and for file transfer and storage.

The Web Server is requested to present the content website to the user's browser. All websites on the Internet have a unique identifier in terms of an IP address.A web server is a system that delivers content or services to end users over the internet. A web server consists of a physical server, server operating system (OS) and software used to facilitate HTTP communication.

A web server is simply a computer program that dispenses web pages as they are requested.

A web server is server software, or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests. A web server can, in general, contain one or more websites. A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols.