Web server

A Web Server is a computer with special software to host web pages and web applications. Web server's traditional function has been to serve static [[HTML]] (and more recently [[XML]]) pages. As the world wide web has become more functional, i.e. [[e-commerce]], dynamic content, and collaborative software, increasing emphasis is placed on a server's ability to host web applications.

Types of Web Servers:

Many different web servers are in use on the world wide web. Some of the more popular ones are:

1. Apache - Open source server, most common web server, distributed primarily on Unix, its derivatives, and Linux
2. Internet Information Server (IIS) - Microsoft's web server included with Windows 2000 / XP Pro
3. Netscape Enterprise Server - Popular server runs on NT and Unix

Our Practices:

We host small to mid-sized web sites on cPanel [[LAMP]] servers unless your needs require something more specific. These servers come with PHP, MySQL, mail servers, hit counters, and other tools.

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