Web Server:

Web server

A Web server, also called an HTTP server, uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to provide information in hypertext format. Clients relay this input from the user to the server and display information on the server in the HTTP format. Other types of Internet-based servers include File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Gopher. The Web is a network consisting of these types of servers. HTTP servers are commonly referred to as Web servers. The most popular HTTP servers are Apache Web Server, iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition (formerly Netscape), Zeus Web Server, and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).