Web server

The term web server can mean one of two things:

a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers;
a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents.

The most common HTTP servers are:

Apache HTTP Server from the Apache Software Foundation
Internet Information Server (IIS) from Microsoft
Caudium (formerly Roxen)
AOLserver from America Online
thttpd from ACME Laboratories
Zeus Web Server from Zeus Technology
Sun ONE from Sun Microsystems (formerly Netscape's iPlanet nee Enterprise)
iPlanet from Netscape Communications Corporation
WebSTAR from 4D, Inc.
Stronghold from Red Hat
NCSA HTTPd
Microsoft Windows PWS

The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 60% of market share as of March 2003, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.

You can find the current web servers statistics from the Netcraft Web Server Survey.

See also

Virtual hosting

simple:Web Server

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