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• Network Access Control
• Firewall
• IT Audit Software System
• Encryption
• Internet Web Software
• IT Audit Software System
• Network Management
• Network Monitoring Software
• Network Utilities
• Remote Access Software
• Security Software
• Virtualization Solutions
• Virus Protection Software
• Web Server Software

Software Information: A guide to Web Server Software

Web Server Software

The Web Server Software that is "behind" the World Wide Web: it listens for requests for access to a website (submitted by a browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Opera), processes them and returns data response. This information, which contain all the elements needed to display a web page composed of text and images, are analyzed by the browser as well as possible and then presented to the user.

Web servers communicate with the Internet browser installed on personal computers "client" (ie the machine that requires access to a website) through HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol): it standardizes the process of sending and receiving data so that any client can easily communicate with any type of web server without compatibility problems.

Web Server Software supports languages like PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, and many other programming languages.

With web server you can create virtual hosts (for more websites on the same machine), change the url dynamic pages with URL Rewriting, ISAPI extensions such as support and Unicode character set.

The software is well suited and very useful even on single machines to plan and develop their website particular attention to safety with a good anti-hacking system that detects attempts to attack and then block the IP of origin so that it can do damage as well as blocking other sites that steal images with a system of anti-leeching.

Nowadays there are numerous web server software in which some of them are freely downloadable from the internet. Before choosing good web server application you must be considered that:-

• Implementation of a web server is the ease of installation and configuration

• Customization options

• Web server characteristics

• Size, performance and guaranteed resource consumption machine support secure transactions availability of source code,

• Punctuality with which they are released updates

• Patches and new versions

• Technical support, support for multiple hardware-software platforms and time to time the availability of advance versions.