What is a Web server?

[geniusmojo]

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.

[jerryperes]

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.

[mihirthakur]

Web Server is an application software that you can install on Windows or Linux machine. When you want run websites from your home computer, you need to install web server application software in PC in order to make http local server running

[VPS9]

Web Server consists of the software, physical server, and the operating system which store, deliver and process the web pages to the end-users. The communication which takes place between the client and the server is by using the “Http” which is nothing but the Hypertext Transfer protocol.

Web server is commonly known as internet server also.

The end-user or the web browser or the web crawler who is the user starts the communication with the server by initiating the request to a particular query using HTTP and the server provides this request to the user if it is available and if it is not available then it provides the error message.

[vigneshtech]

A web server stores and delivers the content for a website – such as text, images, video, and application data – to clients that request it.

[mansi123]

it is the service of software or hardware dedicate to running said software and every web serves has IP address and possibly a domain name.

[tradingstacks]

When you type a Web site address into your browser, Web servers are doing the work of getting you the page you request.

[Kailash]

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.

[anand9796]

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

[NEWTECHTransInd]

Thanks to share your information

[Girish]

Computer system whose primary purpose is to connect to the internet and to download stored webpages and files on to the user (client) computers when accessed or requested. A single web server may support multiple websites, or a single website may be hosted on several linked or mirrored web servers.

[tanwirs]

Web hosting is the service that makes your website available to be viewed by others on the Internet.

[Kailash]

Web server is a program that uses HTTP to serve files that create web pages to users in response to their requests, which is sent by their computers HTTP connection.

Any server that delivers an XML document to another device can be a web server. A better definition might be that a web server is an Internet server that responds to HTTP requests to deliver content and services.

[NEWTECHTransInd]

Thanks to share your experience.

[dwhs]

I like to explain like real estate on the Internet. You are renting plots of land you can add a house or business on for others to visit or just for yourself