Web Server
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Why is it important to understand the answer to the question, how does a web server work? The success of a website doesn’t just depend on its content and functionality but also the efficiency of the web server used to power it. This requires an understanding of a web server’s capabilities and limitations. When discussing how a Web server works, it is not enough to simply outline a diagram of how low-level network packets go in and out of a Web server.
Years ago, when Web servers were first prototyped, they served simple HTML documents and images. Today, as we shall go into later in this tutorial, they are frequently used for much more.
The first step is to view the Web server as a black box and ask the questions: How does it work; what can it achieve? It’s a safe assumption that most Internet users believe a Web site’s success or failure is due to its content and functionality rather than the server used to power it. However, the choice of the correct server, and understanding its capabilities and limitations is an important step on the road to success.
What Does a Web Server Do? So what does a web server do? It’s 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.
