The current common Web server

• First, what is the Web server?

Web servers generally refer to Web servers, which are programs that reside on some type of computer on the Internet, can provide documents to Web clients such as browsers, and we can place Web site files for worldwide browsing; You can place data files for worldwide download

• What are the common Web servers?

Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/):

Apache is still the world's most used Web server, the market share of about 60%, the module is very rich, the system is very stable, portability is good, but more consumption of resources.

LIGHTTPD (http://www.lighttpd.net/):

LIGHTTPD is a German-written open source software, the goal is to provide a high-performance website, it has low memory overhead, low CPU share, good performance and a rich module, nginx one of the important competitors.

Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/):

Tomcat is an open source, Java-based Web application that runs Servlets and JSP Web applications, but Tomcat has weak processing power for static files and high concurrency.

IBM WebSphere Server:

WebSphere is a fully functional, open Web application Server, a core part of the IBM e-Business plan, a Java-based application environment, ranging from simple to advanced to enterprise, with few applications compared to other Web servers

Microsoft IIS:
Microsoft's Web server products are Internet Information Server (IIS), and IIS provides a graphical management interface that IIS is a Web server component that includes Web servers, FTP servers, NNTP Server (news Service), SMTP service, because of the volume of Windows Server 2003/2008, which makes IIS occupy the market

Real-time market share of various Web servers:http://www.netcraft.com/

The current common Web server