There has been a great deal of research conducted on which are the best web servers. The most popular being that when Unix and Linux are running the windows NT/2000 which is the internet running information server, as well as the Apache serve. The Apace is up by 60.17% whereas the NT/2000 is at 30.78%. You may hear the names Weblogics, Zues or SunOne. These are other types of web servers. But the aforementioned are the most popular with the Apache web server mainly because they are so compatible with the majority of computers and machines.

Web servers have the requirement of a platform in order to run well and for the performance of several different types of tasks. The platform is similar to that of the operating system in our computers. Web hosts that are using the Linus, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linus and the FreeBsd like using the Unix platform. It happens to be the most common one. As a web server platform Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000 are both platforms that are doing well also.

You have to make some decisions as to the platform you want to use. How complex you have to be is determined by your website needs. Websites that are dependant on HTML don’t need a complex platform, so almost anyone of the popular ones will be sufficient. If you read a few articles on the various platforms it will be much clearer to you as to their functions.