Cheap Domain Name Cheap Virtual Web Hosting Affordable Web

Cheap Domain Name Cheap Virtual Web Hosting Affordable Web

Cheap Domain Name Cheap Virtual Web Hosting Affordable Web

A Web Server is a server that hosts websites and web applications for the internet or a company intranet. Some of the more common names heard today include Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere, Sun, and Lighttpd. Most web servers are built for the Java community, and some are open source like Apache. Whatever decision you make on a web server will lead you down a specific development road (Microsoft vs Java). There are some standard capabilities that all web servers share.

Prices for web servers range from free (Apache) to sort of free (you get IIS automatically when you have a Windows 200x server) to expensive (WebSphere). Most web servers share a common set of features and functionality that include content support, caching, virtual hosting, authentication and performance.

Which server you use depends on a number of things such as:

  • Are you hosting internally or with a service provider?
  • What are the development skills in house?
  • Do you have Microsoft Windows Servers or Unix Servers in house?
  • What is your budget?

The features and functionality of web servers can be broken down into several areas: