v  A computer on a network that it runs specific software that allows other selected users on the network to access information and resources that are stored on the web server. 

v  The information and resources stored on the web server are formatted in a way according to the HTTP protocol (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).

v  The web server manages and controls the use of WWW services on that computer. And many more (FTP server, Streaming audio server, Streaming video server,)

v  Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name. For example, if you enter the URLhttp://www.sspc.ac.in/index.html in your browser, this sends a request to the server whose domain name is sspc.ac.in. The server then fetches the page named index.html and sends it to your browser.

v  Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet.

v  There are many Web server software applications, including public domain software from NCSA and Apache, and commercial packages from Microsoft, Netscape and others.

v  The term webserver can mean one of two things:

                A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTPrequests from clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).