What is Web Server?

[asad1997]

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

[harshal]

A web server is a program that, that using the client/server model and the World Wide Web’s hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form web pages to web users whose computer contain HTTP clients that forward their requests.

[johnmiller445]

At a most basic level, a "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.

[kstela]

Dedicated computers and appliances may be referred to as Web servers. Web server is a program that uses 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.

[vijaykl32]

a web server helps your website to transfer the files such as webpages. it is also the place where you upload your website and it can be accessed by anyone in the world.

[gauravkap329]

a web server is a place where the user uploads his/her website. After the website is hosted and uploaded on the web server anyone with the query related to the website can find the website .

[allen025]

On the web server you upload your website from where the other user can reach your website.

[Lukedawn]

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.

[rajverm0364]

web server provide you with the service on which you upload your site and other user can interact on your site over the internet.

[juliaalan]

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).

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