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By Abhishek Ghosh November 9, 2011 4:21 pm Updated on August 26, 2014

What is a Server?

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Nearly a year ago, we posted one article with the same title – What is a Server? Again another post with the same title What is a Server, simply because we need to give more updates on the post what is a Server.

 

What is a Server?

 

As we wrote ago, a Server is generally a computer that makes its files available to other computers connected within a network.

A server is computer that stores the files centrally and the users of the network can use these files. As you can understand, answering what is a Server is not tough, but making a novice understand the things is a bit difficult and we will try our best to make you understand what is a Server.

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What is a Server – Digging through the details

 

There are different kinds of Servers, by asking What is a Server, the asker generally wants to know about the web server, which we use to host our websites. So, in this post on What is a Server, we will not go beyond web server.

A folder of a computer with proper hardware components, excellent Internet connection, usually Linux Operating System installed becomes a server to serve the webpages to the public. There are various files on the server, which as a user you can access, but I can edit and delete them.

You might have heard of Dedicated Server. A Dedicated Server is a computer with the above conditions fulfilled intended to be used by only one Administrator.

Virtual dedicated server works like a dedicated server, but the server actually runs several operating systems totally occluded one from each.

Shared servers are those servers which are typically offered at $ 3-10 / month. These are not suitable for running busy blogs and websites.

A Cloud Server is the most modern and can be the costliest option – we are on a Cloud server, If 5 million people opens one page at a time – our server simply increase its RAM, CPU itself. Compare with dedicated or virtual dedicated – they have limited CPU and RAM like our ordinary desktop PCs.

 
what is a server

 
Colocation server is the only server that is physically yours.
The person who is paying for a server can never see the desktop of a server (except a Colocation server).

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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