Web Server - Internet Applications

This document discusses websites, web browsers, and web publishing. It defines websites as sets of related web pages served from a single domain and hosted on web servers. Websites can be static, with fixed content, or dynamic, generating pages from a database. Common types of websites include personal, informational, photo sharing, e-commerce, and mobile sites. Web browsers retrieve and display web resources, supporting privacy, security, and standards. Popular browsers include Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Web publishing involves building and uploading websites, updating pages, and posting online content, using tools like content management systems.

Web servers handle client requests for resources on the internet by providing web pages, documents, and other files. They use the client/server model and communicate with clients using HTTP. A 3-tier architecture divides functionality into separate client, application, and database tiers. Popular web servers include Apache, Tomcat, IIS, and PWS.

There are several types of web hosting services that allow businesses to set up an online presence inexpensively, including shared hosting, dedicated hosting, and collocated hosting. Shared hosting involves hosting a site on a server with other sites, keeping costs low but limiting control. Dedicated hosting provides a full server but at a higher cost. Collocated hosting involves owning the server hardware but having a host manage it offsite. When choosing a host, businesses should consider functionality, reliability, bandwidth, security, backups, and cost. Researching customer reviews and testing service reliability can help narrow options.

This document provides an introduction to web hosting and different hosting plan options. It discusses why having a website and hosting it is important for business online presence, lead generation, and reach. It then describes several hosting plan types including shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting, and reseller hosting. The document concludes by offering tips for choosing a hosting provider, such as considering disk space, technical support availability, hardware, user interface, email capabilities, flexibility to scale, and cost.

Tanvi Wadekar completed a 100-hour IT training course and project on the World Wide Web (WWW). The document defines WWW as an information system accessed via the internet that allows for the exchange of hypertext documents and other digital resources. It discusses the history of WWW, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and its key components like browsers, servers, caches, and protocols. The working of WWW involves connecting to a server via HTTP, requesting an HTML page, and receiving a response before closing the connection. Common elements on WWW are discussed like web pages, bookmarks, directories, sites and URLs. [/SUMMARY]

The document discusses proxy servers, specifically HTTP and FTP proxy servers. It defines a proxy server as a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients to other servers. It describes the main purposes of proxy servers as keeping machines behind it anonymous for security purposes and speeding up access to resources via caching. It also provides details on the mechanisms, types, protocols (HTTP and FTP), and functions of proxy servers.

The document provides an introduction to basic web architecture, including HTML, URIs, HTTP, cookies, database-driven websites, AJAX, web services, XML, and JSON. It discusses how the web is a two-tiered architecture with a web browser displaying information from a web server. Key components like HTTP requests and responses are outlined. Extension of web architecture with server-side processing using languages like PHP and client-side processing with JavaScript are also summarized.

A website is a collection of web pages located on the internet that is dedicated to a particular topic or purpose. There are two main types of websites: static websites that do not frequently change content and dynamic websites where content changes regularly. The key components of a website include a homepage and site-wide template, integrated site navigation, look and feel elements, a logo, about page, feedback form, search features, a domain name, and copyright information.

Apache is an open source web server that is very popular, secure, fast, and reliable. It implements many features including CGI, SSL, virtual domains, and plug-in modules for extensibility. Apache uses simple text configuration files like httpd.conf to configure settings and is run from the command line using scripts like apachectl to start, stop, and restart the server.

Hi fellas, Here is a ppt which helps you to have some basic idea on Web servers, Application servers, Shared and Dedicated Hosting, Back up server and SSL concepts... Technology pool is amazingly very vast. This is a drop of it.

This training report provides an introduction to servers. A server is a system that responds to requests across a network to provide network services. Servers have hardware requirements like fast network connections and high input/output throughput since they provide services to many users. Servers come in different sizes from rack, tower, and blade servers. The conclusion states that servers provide benefits like reduced paper usage, increased communication and data security, easier data management, and improved reliability.