A web server is software and hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and other protocols to respond to client requests made over the WWW (World Wide Web).
Let’s take an example, if you’re working on your computer system, browsing your internet and a message stand out ups from your friend on your email that “I had just read a great article at the following URL: https://techhyme.com/“.
So, you will insert the above URL into your popular browser and press enter. The web server will automatically opens that site for you.
In web server, you can store your files, database and important configuration. It works all the time 24×7, 365 days. You might have listened that server is down or server is not working. It means, Server has heavy load that’s why it is showing some down time.
In this article, we look at some of the best and popular web servers:
| S.No. | Web Server Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apache HTTP Server |
| 2 | Nginx |
| 3 | Apache Tomcat |
| 4 | lighttpd |
| 5 | Internet Information Services (IIS) |
| 6 | LiteSpeed Web Server |
| 7 | Caddy (web server) |
| 8 | Oracle iPlanet Web Server |
| 9 | Cherokee (web server) |
| 10 | CERN httpd |
| 11 | Gunicorn |
| 12 | Mongrel (web server) |
| 13 | Tornado (web server) |
| 14 | AOLserver |
| 15 | Resin (software) |
| 16 | H2O (web server) |
| 17 | Hiawatha (web server) |
| 18 | NaviServer |
| 19 | Xitami |
| 20 | Puma (web server) |
| 21 | WEBrick |
| 22 | Monkey HTTP Server |
| 23 | Mongrel2 |
| 24 | HTTP File Server |
| 25 | Unicorn (web server) |
| 26 | Yaws (web server) |
| 27 | Roxen (web server) |
| 28 | Jexus |
| 29 | thttpd |
| 30 | Tntnet |
| 31 | NCSA HTTPd |
| 32 | Caudium (web server) |
| 33 | Boa (web server) |
| 34 | Adobe JRun |
| 35 | Virtuoso Universal Server |
| 36 | Mongoose (web server) |
| 37 | Small HTTP server |
| 38 | Mobile Web Server |
| 39 | tengine |
| 40 | CL-HTTP |
| 41 | WampServer |
| 42 | Hunchentoot |
| 43 | Serv-U FTP Server |
| 44 | Calendar and Contacts Server |
| 45 | Microsoft Personal Web Server |
| 46 | And-httpd |