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?
In: Technology
Any PC can essentially act as a server. It’s more a word to describe the relationship one PC can have to another in a particular network architecture/layout of information exchange.
Basically, the idea is that you have *servers* and *clients*. Servers are essentially PCs that act as holders of information or records. Clients are PCs trying to access or change information stored on servers. Servers are fairly static and relatively few in number (generally), while clients can come/go, pop in and out of existence, be numerous or zero in number, etc.
So say you store 100,000 images for a website, or webpage, on a particular PC. When people try to load information for that website, whether it’s a single user or 1000+ individual users, they’re all sending requests to that one PC holding the information: “send me this picture”, “send me this web page”, “make this change in your database”.
Latest Answers