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magicyte
11-15-2008, 08:06 PM
What is a server ...

... on the internet?

... on the computer?

-magicyte
thetestingsite
11-15-2008, 10:31 PM
All a server is is a computer with special software to serve things to end users on a network. This could be anything from SQL to Web servers or File to DNS servers. This is just a basic answer, but if you want more details, ask a more detailed question.

Hope this helps.
magicyte
11-16-2008, 12:20 AM
No, that's a great answer! Thanks!

-magicyte
Twey
11-16-2008, 02:05 AM
A server is also that software itself.
thetestingsite
11-16-2008, 02:42 AM
A server is also that software itself.

This is very true and I am glad that you added that. As an example of this, Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/) is a web server and MySQL (http://dev.mysql.com) is a SQL server.
magicyte
11-16-2008, 03:24 AM
Okay. Thanks. I should have said so, but I mainly looking for what a computer server was. Didn't really get it...

-magicyte