A server and a web server are different things ?

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  All web servers are servers. Not all servers are web servers.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A server host services. A web server hosts a web service.

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• lokalhorst@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A web server is a specific version of a server, that serves the web, usually via HTTP. But there are much more a server could be. It could serve via SMTP and would be called a mail server. Or it could be an application server in the enterprise business domain. This means a web server is just a special form of a server.

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• greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The server is the machine, from e.g dell, or a virtual machine subdividing a real piece of equipment

  The webserver is a piece of software it runs that responds mostly to HTTP requests. e.g Apache, Nginx, Traefik, Caddy.

  All webservers are running on a server. Not all servers run webserver software, they might be a fileserver running samba or nfs.

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  • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Samba reminds me of the flamboyant Brazilian dance😆😆😆

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Both terms could refer to software or hardware, depending on the context.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The server brings the coffee?

  ;-)

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

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    • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks 😊😊 Very interesting link.

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  • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh yes, if you are referring to this instance !!

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’d argue that web server generally refers to HTTP(S) servers more broadly regardless of whether they’re accessible on the web, a local network or even just the local interface.

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