Web server

The term web server can mean two things :

• a computer box responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via HTTP protocol to web clients, mostly web browsers
• a software program that is working as a daemon serving (mostly) HTML documents

The most important HTTP Web Servers are :

• /Apache? from Apache Software Foundation
• [/Internet Information Server]? (IIS) from Microsoft
• /Roxen? from [Roxen Internet Software]? (RIS)
  • /Caudium?
• /AOLserver? from AOL
• /THTTPD?

The most popular web server (about 62% of the market) is available from the Apache Software Foundation.

You can find the current web servers statistics from http://www.netcraft.com/survey .