Common Printer Types
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.
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.