Talk:Web server

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  • The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 60% of market share as of March 2003, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.
This kind of seems like advocacy/POV, especially since this is about all web servers, and not Apache in particular. Should this be removed? --User:Khym_Chanur 07:06, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • I agree that this is on the hairy edge of advocacy, but I don't think it was intended by the writer. It's actually useful information. I came here trying to find out precisely this: what to expect in the way of web server software on various systems.
I think we can swing this back towards the middle of NPOV by adding a little table giving statistics about what percentage of web servers use what software. Something like Apache, 61%; BonzoWeb, 14%; HTTeePee, 11%, and so on (sorry, I made up those names). It should also be broken down by operating system type. That would be a great table; it would show the state of play in a neutral and informative way.
Trouble is, of course, that I don't know how one would go about collecting those statistics. If anybody adds such a table, please leave a hint about where the stats come from, so people can fact-check your ass.
Great article — I'm about to add some stuff that everybody knows, but we should say in case they don't.
ACW 16:44, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Question from 61.246.245.2

Is tomcat is an application server? If so, why? (posted to article by 61.246.245.2 on Dec 11, moved here at 06:29, 15 Dec 2004(UTC))

Is this page about web servers or about Apache?

Answer. It is about web servers, Apache is named for historical reasons (A Patchy Web Server derived from the first popular web server).

I have submitted the article HTTP cookie for peer review (I am posting this notice here as this article is related). Comments are welcome here: Wikipedia:Peer review/HTTP cookie. Thanks. - Liberatore(T) 16:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Server models

Would it be better to move all the stuff about concurrency and server models (threaded, process-based, etc.) to its own topic ?

I think so. I think that information is of very narrow interest and doesn't belong in this article. ---Elving 01:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps an article on "web-server architectures"? --Allan McInnes (talk) 02:45, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe, but the information isn't really web-specific. It could be more generally described as simply server architectures. --Elving 05:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good point. A "server architecture" article would also be a good reference point for articles on other types of servers, as well as things like the software architecture article. Any objections to moving the content on concurrency and server models to a new article called "Server architecture" (or some better name, if anyone has any suggestions)? --Allan McInnes (talk) 16:37, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No real objection, but I would try to disambiguate the server name because it can mean an hardware machine or a software program (it depends on the context). What about server models (software) ? --Ade56facc 07:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds good to me. --Allan McInnes (talk) 16:58, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, better late than never, moved chapter Concurrency and server models to new article and renamed the chapter to Performances. --Ade56facc 16:25, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Update: sadly a wiki administrator (UtherSRG) has removed the above article "server models (computer software)" because it has been understood as an HOWTO instead of an explanation of how things work. --Ade56facc 19:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Web servers

What is a web server, explained so that even dad gets an idea what they are?

What is a "managed server"?

Large file support

Large file support to be able to serve files whose size is greater than 2 GB on 32 bit OS. I really can't think of why my web server would be better or more of a web server if it served files more than 2 GB. Is this really an inherent part of the definition of webserver? It doesn't seem comparable to any of the other qualifications: HTTP support, dynamic support, etc. --Mrcolj 21:54, 4 September 2006 (UTC).[reply]

A1. It's not part of the definition, it's only one of the most common features that nowadays are requested by web masters in order to serve huge multimedia files, backup archives, etc.; just as an example Apache 1.3.x does not have any large file support whereas Apache 2.0.x and 2.2.x do have large file support. --Ade56facc 11:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]
Support for large files is a software aspect and not a feature per se. A software aspect enables a feature to function as desired, in this case serving files. Same goes for configurability and extensibility. I removed all three. 217.132.73.191 16:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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