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Explain the purpose of a web server (4marker)

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A web server is hardware that is dedicated to running the software. A web server can contain one or more websites, and does what clients want and can process incoming network requests.

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It's a computer program that distributes web pages as they are requisitioned. The basic objective of the web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to the users. This intercommunication is done using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

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