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CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices Question 10 of 24

Introduction to Internet and Web — Question 10

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Briefly explain the basic concepts of a web server and web hosting.

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A web server is a WWW server that stores web documents and responds to requests made by web browsers. Some examples are Apache, IIS, Nginx, GWS, and Netsite.

A website is physically located on a web host. A group of linked web pages qualifies to be called a website only when hosted on a web server. When the user specifies the address of the website, the web pages are transmitted to the user's computer from the web host.

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