• greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
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    14 days 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.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    14 days 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.