Web Server 0
Posted on
March 08, 2010 by
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The term web server is used to refer both to the computer on which are hosted the websites and to the software that delivers websites content or performs the required operations to build the dynamic content which is later served to the user.
Let’s see the difference between the two more in depth:
Web Server ( Computer )
Every website must be hosted on one or more computers ( server, web server ): the hardware employed to build this computer can be extremely simple or extremely complicated, groups of multiple servers ( clusters ) might be used, sharing the load of the requests coming from the web. This particular configuration is required when a website gets massive traffic.