What is a Web server?

[astrologerhome2]

A web server is server software or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests.

[Kailash]

A Web Service is can be :

is a client server application or application component for communication.
method of communication between two devices over network.
is a software system for interoperable machine to machine communication.
is a collection of standards or protocols for exchanging information between two devices or application.

[Saurabh]

Web servers are computers that deliver (serves up) Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name

[johnmiller445]

"Web server" is just a program that accepts incoming HTTP (or HTTPS) requests and emits HTML (or other display languages like Javascript, Flash, etc) to the client. It can be on any device with a network connection, and can be coded in any programming language capable of accepting network connections, reading strings, and writing text output to an outbound network connection, which means just about any programming language beyond the most trivial scripting languages.

[thewebhostingdi]

A web server is server software or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests. Web server is a computer where the web content is stored. A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols.A web server is server software or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests. Web server is a computer where the web content is stored. A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols.

[kylojoe]

A web server is a platform where the total data of any website is saved. The server preserves the data information on our website. A survey is, in a way, a computer that serves other computers. There are many different server servers available in the world.

[Scopehosts]

What is a Web server?

Web Server is basically a Hardware setup for serving all the purpose of retrieving and storing the data, files, websites, web applications. Even the computer can serve as a server with very minimum facilities.

It uses a set of Protocols like http /https to provide all the web pages you are searching for int the web browser

[asad1997]

At the most basic level, a web server is simply a computer program that dispenses web pages as they are requested.

[sophiawils59]

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 also known as an internet server.

[Paro]

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.

[Mithzi Rai]

What is a Web server?

A web server is server software, or hardware dedicated to running said software, that can satisfy World Wide Web client requests.

[Ryan Kishore]

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.

[smithmary01]

A Web server is a software or hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and other protocols to respond to client requests made over the World Wide Web. In a general term, this software helps in running the website.

[ihost]

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.

[faizan190]

What is a Web server?

A Web server is software or hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and other protocols to respond to client requests made over the World Wide Web (WWW). ... Web servers often come as part of a larger package of internet- and intranet-related programs that are used for: Sending and receiving emails.