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Platform services provide a platform for developers to completely build and deploy ​software applications, without having to deal with OS maintenance, server hardware, ​networking or other services that are needed to use the platform tools.

  • A web server that we deploy our web applications to or ​the development software that we used to code our applications, ​are both examples of platform services Whether there’s a website that promotes their business or ​even a website that is their business, ​businesses that run web services keep their services stored on a web server. ​A web server stores and serves content to clients through the Internet.
  •  ​You can access web servers using a domain name like google.com. 
  • ​A web server itself stores web bars and runs an HTTP service or ​HTTP server that processes HTTP requests.
  • Remember that HTTP is how the web formats and transfers web pages

You can think of the web server as the physical server that stores web files and ​the HTTP server software. ​When your web browser makes a request to fetch a web page from a URL, ​it sends an HTTP request that gets processed by the HTTP server. ​Then the HTTP server sends out an HTTP response with ​the content that you requested. ​ Pasted image 20260701230101 There are a lot of popular HTTP server software out there, but the most widely ​used is the Apache HTTP Server, most commonly referred to as Apache. ​Apache is free and open source. ​It helps serve a large percentage of web pages on the Internet.