- Every Web site sits on a computer known as a Web server.
- This server is always connected to the internet.
- Every Web server that is connected to the Internet is given a unique address made up of a series of four numbers between 0 and 256 separated by periods. e.g. 68.178.157.132 or 68.122.35.127.
There are four leading web server: Apache, IIS, lighttpd and Jagsaw.
Apart from these Web Servers, there are other Web Servers also available in the market but they are very expansive. Major ones are Netscape's iPlanet, Bea's Web Logic and IBM's Websphere.
Linux Web Server:
A Web Server provides the ability to host websites or take advantage of web based applications. In the simplest terms it is where a website that can be viewed through the Internet physically resides.
Real Time's Linux Web Server takes advantage of Apache, the most widely-used web server software. More web servers use Apache than any other web server software
This is the most popular web server in the world developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache web server is an open source software and can be installed on almost all operating systems including Linux, Unix, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and more. About 60% of the web server machines run the Apache Web Server.
This web server from Sun Microsystems is suited for medium and large web sites. Though the server is free it is not open source. It however, runs on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. The Sun Java System web server supports various languages, scripts and technologies required for Web 2.0 such as JSP, Java Servlets, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, ASP and Coldfusion etc.
Jigsaw (W3C's Server) comes from the World Wide Web Consortium. It is open source and free and can run on various platforms like Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X Free BSD etc. Jigsaw has been written in Java and can run CGI scripts and PHP programs.
Windows Web Server:
Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft to be used with Microsoft Windows. It is the world’s second most popular web server only after the Apache HTTP Server.
We can provide the following features on a Web Server:
- Services for FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
- SMTP for e-mail
- Url Rewrite Module
- Active Directory Service
- HTTP/HTTPS for web server
- File Server
- MySQL
- MS SQL Server
- Dot Net
- PHP
- JSP
- Remote server Administration tools
- Firewall
- Antivirus (Server & Client Based)
- Proxy server
- 128 bit Encryption
- SSL Secure Server
- CGI support
