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Web Servers: Choosing, Configuring, and Optimizing Web servers sit at the front line of your site. They handle requests, manage connections, and decide how fast pages load. The right choice depends on your content, traffic, and your team’s skills. Choosing a Web Server Nginx shines at serving static files and working as a reverse proxy. Apache offers many modules and broad compatibility. Caddy gives automatic TLS and simple setup. Match features to needs: light blogs need less code, while apps with many rules may favor Apache or Nginx. ...

Web Servers in Practice: Performance and Security Web servers handle requests from users around the world. In practice, speed matters for user experience and search rankings, while security protects data and trust. Small sites and large apps share the same basics: fast content, clear errors, and strong protection against abuse. The goal is a reliable, simple stack you can maintain over time. Performance in practice starts with measurement. Track latency, error rate, and throughput, and watch how they change with traffic. Then tune the stack in layers. Caching at every level helps: the browser, a reverse proxy, and the application cache should all return content quickly. Enable compression—prefer Brotli or gzip for text assets—and avoid wasting CPU on images or already compressed data. ...

Web Servers and How They Work A web server is software that waits for requests from browsers. It can serve static files such as HTML, images, and styles, or run programs to create pages on the fly. The server talks with clients using the HTTP protocol and is usually reachable on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). How a request travels The user types a domain. DNS translates it to an IP address. The browser opens a TCP connection to that address. The browser sends an HTTP request, for example GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 with a Host header. The server processes the request and sends a response, including a status code and content. The connection can be closed or kept open for more requests. What a web server does ...