| SE452: Servers [26/29] |
What do we mean by a server?
There are different types of servers
Web servers are designed to serve static content quickly and efficiently.
Examples: Apache, iPlanet iWS, IIS
Forward requests for dynamic content to an Application server
Application servers are designed to create dynamic content contains business logic and data manages persistence and transcation ensures data integrity and security
Database servers host the database application that persists the data to permanent storage