What is a Web server?

[laragiles]

What is a Web server?

[smartscraper]

A web server is computer software and the underlying hardware. The server accepts requests via HTTP/HTTPS.

[taxiongo]

Web servers are software or hardware (or both together) that stores and delivers content to a web browser at a basic level. The servers communicate with browsers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Web servers can also support SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Web servers are also used for hosting websites and data for web applications. They can host single websites and multiple websites using virtualization.

[wolverine_25]

Hello Laragiles,

A Web server is a hardware and software-based very powerful machine or computer that runs websites. The main objective of the webserver is to store, process, and deliver the content or web pages more likely to the users. This internal process is carried out using HyperText Transfer Protocol(HTTP).

In short, it is responsible for displaying the web site's content on the screen. This web content is usually in the form of Images, sheets, videos, HTML documents, etc. this web server also supports Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) for emailing and File Transfer Protocol(FTP) for file transferring and storage. I hope you might get the concept of the webserver.

[Electrum]

Hello Friends,
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 webserver is to store, process and deliver web pages to the users.

[chris26]

A web server is software and hardware that uses HTTP to deliver websites and blog pages to people on the world wide web. Basically a server stores all the information and has addresses for each page on the server so people can find it.