A Web Server is a Cloud Server configured with all the software and applications required in order to provide the Web services and content. The most common use of a Web Server is to host one or more websites, but it is also ideal for hosting business applications that can be accessed via the Internet.
A Web Server can either be based on Linux or Windows Operating System. For Linux Web Servers the Apache platform is adopted while thebWindows Web Servers are provided with IIS (
Internet Information Services).
* On Windows Web Servers you will find already installed and configured: IIS, Windows Components, .NET Framework 4.0, PHP, ActivePerl - Community Edition, MyODBC 3.51 - MyODBC 5.1.X - MySQL .NET, MVC3, WSE3.0, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0.
** On Linux Web Servers you will find already installed and configured: Apache, PHP + GD library,Perl, Phyton, Webmin.
Both Linux and Windows Web Servers support most common languages of server side pages, and for ones that aren't supported, they can still be installed by the user: PHP, ASP, ColdFusion Markup Language, JavaServer Pages, Perl CGI, Python, Ruby on Rails.