Web Server

A Web Server is a server system that provides websites, files and other web content to clients such as web browsers. Communication primarily takes place through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, and its encrypted variant HTTPS. When a request is received, the Web Server processes it and returns the requested content to the client. This can include static files such as HTML documents, images and stylesheets or dynamically generated content from web applications. Web Servers can operate on physical servers, virtual machines, containers or cloud infrastructure. Well-known Web Server software includes Apache HTTP Server, Nginx and Microsoft Internet Information Services. Web Servers provide a fundamental technical platform for websites, online shops, web applications, APIs and numerous other internet and intranet services.