What is a Web Server?
Web servers are computers that deliver (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.dishantd.com/index.html in your browser, this sends a request to the Web server whose domain name is
dishantd.com . The server then fetches the page named
index.html and sends it to your browser.
As a summary :
- The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
- To let others view your web pages, you must publish your web site.
- To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
- Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
- Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Here is the list of steps in working of Hosting server:
Step 1: User(client) sends the request to a server for some web page.
Step 2: The web server receives the requests and finds the file on the server.
Step 3: server serves the the file to the user if it is existing. If resource is not available it sends the appropriate error message to browser.
Step 4: Finally web browser display the content to the user if request was successful. In case of some error browser displays appropriate error message to the user(client).
- In this article we discussed the working of web hosting server.-
You can use your own PC as a web server, it is more common to let an Internet Service Provider (ISP) host your site.
- inside a Facebook server farm