Different types of web servers in web hosting environment

There are alot of types of web servers used in hosting environment, i will provide you information about some of them here, first let me list the different types of web servers and then i will explain them in detail.



1.Apache web server
2.Microsoft Internet Information Service
3.Lighttpd
4.Sun Java System Web Server
5.Jigsaw Server
6.nagios web server
7.Zeus web server



1.Apache Web server

This is developed by Apache software foundation, the most reliable and most widely used web server in hosting environment, about 58.8% of the servers are using Apache, this is a open source and free software, this software is usable in Linux, windows, Mac, FreeBSD type operating systems. It supports J2EE(java) when combined with tomcat module. Can have captcha working by enabling Freetype and GD support to PHP modules. Guess what it even supports ASP.NET pages but not to the fuller version.


2.Mcrosoft IIS server.

This is developed by Microsoft corporation, this is one of the easy to work web server and about 33% servers are using this software, this is a Microsoft software and it comes with a cost value along with server operating system CD's provided by Microsoft. This supports ASP.NET and many other Microsoft enabled web softwares.



3.Lighttpd

This is a open source and free software comes inbuilt with FreeBSD operating systems this consumes very less system resources, this can run on Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.


4.Sun Java System Web Server

This is developed by Sun micro systems, this is a free software specifically used in larger websites, but this is not an open source software, this can run on Linux, Windows, and other unix like operating systems. Has all the supports for the languages needed by a larger web sites.



5.Jigsaw Server

Jigsaw is an W3C Open Source Project, started May 1996, it supports many Java enabled supports, developed by World Wide Web Consortium. It is open source and free software that can run on operating systems like Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X Free BSD.


6.nagios web server

This is one of the open source software and free software, that can run on operating systems like Linux, and other unix operating systems.


7.Zeus web server

This is one of the easy to use web server that can be configured on a web interface used n a browser using 9090 as default port number, it comes with a cost.

Feel free to post your replies if i went wrong somewhere.

Regards,
Siru