SharePoint is an application server, but it requires (and extends) internet Information Server, Microsoft's web server software.
The most popular web server on the Internet is Apache, with approximate 46% of the total market share. The second most popular is IIS, with 22% of the market share. You can view monthly statistics on web server market share at the related link below.
Apache currently has over 60% of the market share and is the most used web server.
A web server strictly speaking would be a server that hosts web sites. The choice you have least expensive first: Shared Hosting - a share on a web server, no fixed CPU, Disk Space, Bandwidth VPS - A slice of a server that has defined parameters for CPU etc Dedicated - A server all to yourself
In a traditional 3 tier architecture, the tiers include Web Server, App Server & Database Server. The Webserver holds the UI(User Interface), App Server holds Business Logic (Application) and Database Server holds Actual Data
Someone can share Linux web hosting by using web-based control panel system. It also must have a system administration since the server is shared by many people.
It can be both according to the requirement of the business. for a comparison what the requirement may be try the link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758523.aspx
A server is a database--on a server. The client is: a person on a PC connected to the server via odbc querying the database. A database is only an app on the server. You can have a domain controller, a mail server, a nat server, web hosting... doesnt matter whats on it. And the client wouldn't really be person, a person is referred to as a user. A client is generally the computer. So what is client server networking? Its when you have perhaps 4 clients all using the server for something. The server kinda being like a master. But usually most clients will look to the server for their network settings (DHCP), and perhaps NAT etc..... But like the above person mentioned you can have database's on your server. But your not just limited to database's, you can have mail server's, web servers, app server etc....
A web server is a server that is able to store web pages allowing users to view them from another computing device and there are many web server types released by many companies and those are as follows: - Apache Web Server - Apache Tomcat - Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Windows Server - Nginx web server - Zeus Web Server
Can you install proxy server or web caching server?And why do we do it?
yes a web server is an end server
Personal Web Server (PWS)
For the internet; your web browser is the client and the web server is the server.