What is a web server and which is the best?
A web server actually refers to two things – a computer/machine that hosts web sites (hardware) and a software that runs on such a machine and processes requests from browsers (also called client software). Thus, if someone mentions “web server”, you need to clarify – Are they referring to the machine or the software? In this article I shall provide some information on web server software. If you want details on web server machine, I suggest you read “how is a web hosting Server different from your home/office machine?” A web server is special software capable of servicing HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests. For this reason, web server software is also referred to as HTTP server. OK… in English. A web server is a program (software) helps serve web pages when they are requested for by browsers. The web server runs the HyperText Transfer Protocol which is a set of rules for two computers to talk to each other. [And that was my best attempt at putting it in the simplest languag
