A computer, including software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. More specifically, a server is a computer that manages and shares web based applications accessible anytime from any computer connected to the Internet.
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A Web Server is a computer on the World Wide Web (connected to the Internet Backbone) that stores HTML documents that can be retrieved via a Web browser.
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A computer that delivers (serves up) Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name. For example, if you enter the URL http://www.pcwebopedia.com/index.html in your browser, this sends a request to the server whose domain name is pcwebopedia.com. The server then fetches the page named index.html and sends it to your browser. Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet. ...
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Computer hardware where web pages are stored and accessed by others using web client software, or the computer software that allows the user to access the web pages. See also server.
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A computer that stores web pages.
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A computer that is connected to the Internet and stores files written in HTML (hypertext markup language) that are publicly available through an Internet connection.
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the computer program that serves requested HTML pages or files. A Web client is the requesting program associated with the user. The Web browser is a client that requests HTML files from Web servers.
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a specialized computer inside a network which sends out web content (pages, etc.) when a request is made by a web browser client. A website itself is hosted on the web server.
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A computer directly linked to the web that is used as a host for a web site.
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A term often used to describe a computer that hosts a Web site. In actual fact the term refers to software running on that computer allowing Web pages to be requested and then sent to a user's Web browser.
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Software that sends web site pages back to browsers. Also referred to as an HTTP daemon (HTTP being the protocol used for web pages). If you run this software then you have set up your own web site.
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A Web server stores information in a series of text files called pages. These text files or pages use a structured language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to store their information.
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A server running the HTTP protocol on the Internet and able thereby to move hypertext files around the Internet and serve them to client computers connected by modem and browser.
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A piece of software that stores Web pages ready for access by other computers.
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Also called HTTP Server. A computer where Web sites and Internet sites are stored. The server software uses HTTP to serve HTML documents, associated files, and scripts when requested by a Web browser.
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Although it might seem that a web server is a machine, it is really a process running on a machine that serves HTTP content to web browsers on client machines. This is important because you can actually put several web servers on a single machine as long as you designate specific ports through which traffic will travel. Along the same lines, there are also FTP servers, mail servers, and so on, each of which handles a specific type of traffic.
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A computer that delivers (serves up) Web pages.
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Refers to a server used to host web pages and differs from a streaming server used to host and send streaming media.
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The computer that physically holds the Web site on its hard disk and transfers Web pages and information over the Internet as they are requested using one or more protocols, such as HTTP, FTP, and so on.
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A computer that is dedicated to retrieve and send files on request from another computer, particularly Web page HTML files that are "requested" by entering the URL in a browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape.
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A Web Server is a computer which is connected to the Internet and is running specialized World Wide Web Server software. Web Servers come in various sizes depending on the amount of data they must handle and the expected number of daily requests for information from Internet users around the world.
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A computer connected to the Internet that stores and distributes Web pages upon request. The "server" is actually a software program running on the computer
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A program that serves files to users so they can view web pages.
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A computer that uses software to transmit Web pages and associated files over the Internet.
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A software program that is capable of servicing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests.
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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.
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