It is the time of Internet-Boom and everybody knows the word webserver. Almost every Internet user uses the word "Server" but the most people don't know what's behind this technically very complex concept. The term "server" or "Web server" is linguistically derived from the latin word "servus". Translated it means "servant". But whom does he serve and more important "Why?".
The server or web server is to be understood as a kind of servant who transmits individual documents to client. Specifically servers are always called Web servers in the context of computer technology if it includes so-called web software. The web servers are used in various forms. This can differ sometimes greatly depending on the specific job profiles. Thus Web servers are mainly local and on a corporate network that can be distributed via external hard drives.
The majority of all web servers are used in the World Wide Web (eg for Free Games, Online Games providers, Databases), are mostly affordable, and therefore often require no credit for the financing. The advantage to use various servers and web servers is usually the fact that various documents that deal with a very individual purposes at local or company-level can be made available worldwide. Basically modern Web servers are designed to use standard transfer protocols like http and https. Even radios with MP3-support can be controlled via the http protocol nowadays.
The most important network protocols use the so-called TCP and IP standards and work on the default port 80. The great advantage of tofay's web servers is without a doubt the fact that static (html - pages) as well as dynamic (such as PHP documents) contents can be provided to the user.
It all started in the late 1980s.
Tim Berners at the European Nuclear Research Laboratory (CERN) developed the first Web server (NeXTStep) and the world's first browser for the new concept "World Wide Web". The development of this web server and Internet browser pioneered the development of groundbreaking technology.
The major Web servers nowadays are in the opinion of many experts the Apache HTTP server and the so-called Microsoft Internet Information Service.