ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

If you have a brilliant idea for a web app, but the thought of coding sends shivers down your spine. You might be interested to know that there is a way to bring your idea to life without needing to ...

While many people maintain their websites through a hosting provider, you still need to know how it works. This month, we’ll use the free and open source Apache Project to build a Web server. Most ...

Nor do Web servers typically need a great deal of disk space. Even a vast library of documents will typically fit onto one of today's multi-gig hard drives. What about network performance? Again, this ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

OpenAI’s new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box. OpenAI’s new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...