I will also provide some tips so you can easily deploy one of the popular web servers yourself.Īccording to Wikipedia, a web server is 'a computer system that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. In this article, I look at the most popular open source web servers, and briefly review their history, technology, features, and more. Statistics show us that well over 80% of web applications and websites are powered by open source web servers.
