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title: "What's the difference between an application server and a web server?"  
description: "What's the difference between an application server and a web server?"  
author: "Ronan Jone"  
published: 2018-03-09  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38015/what-s-the-difference-between-an-application-server-and-a-web-server  
category: "server"  
tags: ["web servers"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What's the difference between an application server and a web server?

What's the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) between an [application server](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/908/what-is-application-server) and a [web server](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23199/digital-personal-server-the-premium-web-server)?

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