What is a Web server?

Web server is simply a computer program that dispenses web pages as they are requested. Basically web server is used to host the web sites but there exists other web servers also such as gaming, storage, FTP, email etc.
 
It is a system that delivers content or services to end users over the internet. To facilitate HTTP communication, a web server consists of a physical server, server operating system (OS) and software utilized.
 
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.
 
A web server is a program that uses http to derve the files that form web pages, in response to the requests, which are forwaded by their computers http client. It is mostly designed to serve static content, though most web sever have plugin to support scripting language like Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP etc through which these servers can generate dynamic http content.

Web Servers:

* Apache HTTP Server(by Apache)
* Internet Information Services(by Microsoft)
* Sun Java system web serve
 
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