Web Server

Web Server

What is the first thing that comes to your mind if someone asks you about a web server? If we simply break the term, it would mean a server which is responsible for providing web content.

A web server can be any of the following:

1) A computer program which delivers web content using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) over the World Wide Web (www).

2) A computer or virtual machine which runs the program of delivering web content.

Let us learn the most common features of a web server.

Features Of Web Server

1. Virtual Hosting

It is a method in which a computer with a single IP address is used for hosting multiple domain names. This allows a machine to share its process cycles,  memory and even data quite easily with others. Shared web hosting is one of the most popular applications of Virtual Hosting since it allows multiple clients to be hosted on a single server.

Uses Of Virtual Hosting

1) Usually Virtual Web Hosting is used for corporate MNCs whose business models are designed to provide affordable websites hosting to their customers across the globe. In most of the cases, the client's websites and web-data are hosted on shared servers using virtual hosting technology.

2) Sometimes large companies require this technology for their internal business purposes as well. If daily working involves huge utilization of customer extranet website, employee extranet and internal intranet for various departments; then all the web data can easily be merged into single server within the organization using Virtual Web Hosting. This would not only save management risks and administrative concerns, but also reduce the number of individual servers needed to support such a business model. 

2. Bandwidth Throttling

Let us first understand the meaning of throttle. In Simple English term, it signifies a mechanism which is used to restrict the flow of a fluid by constriction or obstruction. Similarly, bandwidth throttling is a mechanism/method used to limit the quantity of data being transmitted or accepted within a specific interval of time. A server is an efficient bandwidth intensive device.

Let us Understand the concept:

A web server is a host computer which is connected to Internet and provides the data as desired by the client. It is quite obvious that the flow of data is not uniform across the day. It might peak and fall at a specific interval of time.

During high inflow of data requests, there can be massive congestionof data which leads to request being timed out, delay in server response and sometimes a server crash. A simple way to avoid such a scenario is the implementation of bandwidth theottling to control the number of requests being sent to the server in a given interval of time. A computer administrator can set a realistic figure and test the server response.

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