What is Web Server and how it works?

What is Web Server and how it works?

Web server is a program that uses HTTP to serve files that create web pages to users in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers HTTP connection.

Any server that delivers an XML document to another device can be a Web server. A better definition might be that a Web server is an Internet server that responds to HTTP requests to deliver content and services.

Let me explain you with a simple example, I can say if you are in front of your computer, browsing your Web, and you get a message from a friend saying, "I had just read a great article! You can check it from the following URL. It's at  So you will type that URL into your browser and press enter.

And that’s it, no matter where the website hosted in the world, the page will be displayed on your computer screen.

Always a web server is connected to the internet. Every Web server that connects to the Internet will be provided with a unique address which was arranged with a series of four numbers between 0 and 255 separated by periods.

Also, web server enables the hosting providers to manage multiple domains(users) on a single server.