Understanding typical Web servers

The most widely used free HTTP server on UNIX and Linux platforms is the universal, NCSA, and Apache servers, while the Windows platform nt/2000/2003 uses IIS Web servers. Some of the most common Web servers you should consider when choosing to use a Web server are performance, security, logging and statistics, virtual hosts, proxy servers, buffering services, and integrated applications.

①microsoft IIS

　　

Microsoft's Web server product is Internet Information Server (IIS), which is a Web server that allows information to be published on a public intranet or on the Internet. IIS is one of the most popular Web server products at the moment, and many famous web sites are built on the IIS platform. IIS provides a graphical interface management tool, called Internet Services Manager, that you can use to monitor configuration and control of Internet services.

IIS is a Web services component that includes Web servers, FTP servers, NNTP servers, and SMTP servers for Web browsing, file transfers, news services, and mail delivery, which makes it easy to post information on the network, including the Internet and local area networks. It provides an ISAPI (Intranet server API) as a programming interface for extending Web server functionality, and it also provides an Internet database connector that enables querying and updating of databases.

②IBM WebSphere

　　

WebSphere Application Server is a full-featured, open WEB Application Server, a core part of the IBM E-business Initiative, a java-based application environment for building, deploying, and managing Internet and Intranet Web applications Program. This entire suite of products has been scaled up to meet the needs of WEB application servers, ranging from simplicity to advanced to enterprise level.