Web server
![The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting](/Images/godic/202501/18/Inside_and_Rear_of_Webserver2022.jpg")
![Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website, here Dell servers are installed together being used for Wikimedia Foundation](/Images/godic/202501/18/Wikimedia_Foundation_Servers-8055_352022.jpg")
![The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads:](/Images/godic/202501/18/First_Web_Server2022.jpg")
![Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 - a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)](/Images/godic/202501/18/Cobalt_Qube_3_Front2022.jpg")
A web server is an information technology that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. The term can refer either to the entire computer system, an appliance, or specifically to the software that accepts and supervises the HTTP requests.