I hear the word server in all sorts of contexts whenever computers are involved. What is a server and how does it relate to a PC?
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As far as computing goes, any computer, from your laptop to a giant mainframe can be a server if it serves data to another computer called a client.
If you start hosting minecraft for a few of your friends on your PC, you are a server. If your friend is hosting minecraft and you are connecting to them, your friend’s PC is the server and your PC is the client.
Server doesn’t have to imply big huge machines, but it is often the case in enterprise level computing where the computer is serving hundreds of thousands of different clients at once. So to do that they need to be huge to have lots of CPU, memory and other needed infrastructure.
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