Web servers: The best free and open programs available
Un «Servidor Web» it can be both a Computer (hardware) that provides hosting and operating functionalities to Internet pages or servicesAs an Program or Set of programs (Software) that make it possible for said Internet pages or services to exist and function.
At the Software level, to achieve the implementation of a «Servidor Web», today, there are many successful free software and open source solutions available, like alternatives to commercial, proprietary and closed solutions of the big world-class companies.
Individually, a program of «Servidor Web» manage the «Protocolo de Transferencia de Hipertextos (Hypertext Transfer Protocol o HTTP)», to make the files that make up a web page available (online) to users, through a Web navigator.
In the group, a «Servidor Web» can also be viewed or defined as a set of programs related to connections to internet or an intranet, covering for this from the management of emails, downloading files, browsing websites, and / or simple or complex consultation of information hosted in databases (BD) within themselves or connected to it.
Web Servers
A basic Web Server is usually made up of 3 fundamental types of programs that are:
- Web Server
- Databases
- Programming, Scripting and Markup Language
Here are the best known:
Web Servers
Main free, open and free
- Apache
- Nginx
Main private, closed and commercial
- CloudflareServer
- LiteSpeed
- Microsoft IIS
Other free, open, exclusive and closed options
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache TrafficServer
- Google servers
- IBM servers
- lighttpd
- Node.js
- Oracle servers
- engine
Updated information on Web Servers programs
Databases
Main free, open and free
- postgresql
- MySQL (Community)
- MariaDB
Main private, closed and commercial
- Oracle
- IBM DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Teradata
- SAP Sybase
- Mark LogicServer
- GemFire Pivotal
- OracleNoSQL
- Microsoft Azure Table Storage
- Amazon RedShift
- AllegroGraph
- Neo4j
- InfiniteGraph
- Cortex DB
- Amazon Simple DB
Other free, open, exclusive and closed options
- MongoDB
- CouchbaseServer
- ElasticSearch
- RavenDB
- jena apache
- apache geode
- Redis
- Ripples
- Apache cassandra
- apache hbase
- Neo4j
- FoundationDB
- Orient DB
Updated information about the Database programs
Programming, Scripting and Markup Languages
Main free, open and free
- PHP
- PERL
- Python
Main private, closed and commercial
- Java
- PowerShell
- Swift
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic .Net
Other free, open, exclusive and closed options
- Bash
- C
- C++
- C#
- Go
- JavaScript
- MATLAB
- R
- Ruby
- Rust
- Ladder
- Shell
Auxiliary and complementary technologies for Web Development
- HTML
- CSS
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Types of Web Servers
Depending on how the above individual programs are combined within a «Servidor Web» As a comprehensive solution, they are usually called or classified as follows:
- LAMP: Linux + Apache-MySQL-PHP Operating System
- LAMPPP: Linux OS + Apache_MySQL / MongoDB_PHP / PERL / Python
- PNML: Windows Operating System + Nginx_MariaDB_PHP
- LAPP: Linux Operating System + Apache_PostgreSQL_PHP
- MAMP: MacOS + Apache_MySQL_PHP Operating System
- MAMPPP: MacOS + Apache_MySQL_PHP_PERL_Python Operating System
- MAPP: MacOS + Apache_PostgreSQL_PHP Operating System
- WIMP: Windows Operating System + IIS_MySQL_PHP
- WNMP: Windows Operating System + Nginx_MariaDB_PHP
- WAMP: Windows Operating System + Apache_MySQL_PHP
- WAMPPP: Windows Operating System + Apache_MySQL_PHP / PERL / Python
- WAPP: Windows Operating System + Apache_PostgreSQL_PHP
- XAMP: Linux / MacOS / Windows Operating System + Apache_MariaDB_PHP / Perl
Free and Non-Free Web Server Packages
The programs mentioned in the image below are some of those existing both in the world of Free and Open Software, as in the world of Private and Closed Software for the comprehensive implementation of a Web server:
Note: There are other lesser known ones that would surely be worth investigating and testing, such as, for example, laragon to implement XAMPP Web Servers.
Conclusion
To know how to choose well what type of «Servidor Web» needed install and configure, or that individual programs or comprehensive solution «Servidor Web» It must be implemented, it is required to take into account the capabilities and characteristics of the Hardware and Operating System to be used, the type of pages or web systems to be managed and even the type of software development tools that can be installed if it were the case.
If you have created, managed or used any «Servidor Web» of those mentioned here, share with us your impressions and experiences via comments, so that together we enrich the knowledge of the entire Free Software and Open Source Community.
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Wow, how absurd and aberrant to put HTML as a programming language!
It is a markup language, with HTML you cannot access databases by itself, nor does it have functions, cycles or anything similar to say that it is a programming language.
Greetings M13. Thanks for your comment. And the truth is you are absolutely right, however I add in my defense that although HTML is a markup language, now in its current version (HTML5) it is more than a simple markup language. And whether we like it or not, the logical thing is that anyone who designs web pages or web applications, it is good for him to learn and / or master said markup language (HTML5). Hence its inclusion in the list. As a small contribution to demonstrate that HTML1 is not what HTML5 is now, I leave you this small link for the less understood: https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/HTML/HTML5
Anyway, take note of your observation and made the necessary adjustments in the text of the article. Thanks for your input!
I liked it
Greetings, Yolanda! Thank you for your positive comment.
It also seems like a good post? Concise and clear… .. And indeed HTML (it is a markup language), as you indicated it as a complementary or auxiliary technology to web development, there is no major problem. Greetings!!