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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A server is just a computer that is dedicated to providing some service or content to clients (individual users’ computers/phones/etc.) The internet largely works on a client-server model where you, the client, connect to some server to get the data you need (the other model is peer-to-peer, and that’s where there is no central server hosting the data, it’s shared across many clients that connect to each other, like bittorrent.) Any kind of computer that has networking capabilities can be a server, but most servers tend to be specialized computers that are very good at handling lots of traffic or processing a lot of data.
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