Web server basically refers to CPU that receives requests from the internet and sends information to those clients.
It can widely be understood as a tool that I ready with and subsidized by using positive particular applications. That enables it to offer services to other devices that share this information with the network.
A Web Server mainly refers to the server hardware device or software that stores the site content and uses it to host the websites and produce the same results when requested by the clients on the World Wide Web.
Types of the web servers
1.) Apache HTTP Web Server
The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache, is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.
Some other noteworthy features of the Apache HTTP Server are:
- It can be easily installed on multiple platforms and function properly.
- Out of all the types of web servers available, the Apache HTTP servers are much more stable and easier in terms of functionality, especially the latest released versions which are capable of handling a distinguishingly greater number of client requests when compared to the other versions.
2.) Internet Information Services (IIS)
Internet Information Services is an extensible web server software created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family. IIS supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP.
The Internet Information Services is an extensible Web Server by Microsoft which was created with the Windows NT family.
It is because of this that Microsoft maintains this product and it works with each and every Windows Operating System Platform.
3.) Lighttp Web Server
Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure, and flexible.
Lighttpd gets its name from a portmanteau of ‘light’ and ‘httpd’ and has been nicknamed ‘lighty’. Lighttpd defines itself in terms of security, speed, compliance, and flexibility.
4.) Sun java system
Basically, the Sun Java System is a web server from Sun that runs under Windows, Solaris, and HP- UX and is known for supporting the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, Server- Side JavaScript (SSJS), and Java Servlets.
Sun Microsystems used the brand Sun Java System to market computer software and this brand superseded Sun ONE.
5.) Light Speed web server
LiteSpeed Web Server, is a proprietary web server software. It is the 4th most popular web server, estimated to be used by 8.1% of websites as of December 2020. LSWS is developed by privately held LiteSpeed Technologies.
The LiteSpeed Web Servers are quite compatible with the features of the Apache Web servers since they use similar configurations.
6.) NODE.JS WEB SERVER
Node.js is known for executing JavaScript code outside of a browser. It is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment and enables developers to use JavaScript for writing commands.
Some of the prominent features of Node.js Web Server are:
- Owing to the fact that it is built on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine, it is very fast in code execution.
- Even though it is based on the Single-threaded model, the Node.js Web Server is highly scalable which gives it an upper hand over the other traditional Web Servers.