thought about this while making my minecraft server, what is a server?
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* A server is a ***software application*** that gives out information when asked for it.
* For example a web server is an application that will send HTML data that makes up a webpage to a browser that asks for it.
* The reason most other folks have being saying that a server is a computer, is because *most of the time the* server applications run on special dedicated computers that are designed just to make sure that one application works well.
* These computers have themselves become known as “servers” but that’s really just short hand for “server computer”.
* But you can run a server on almost any computer, or even your smart phone.
* You can also run multiple servers on the same computer.
* For example most home routers has a web server built in that allows you to change the settings of the router, while they also have a DNS server that allows your home computers to convert a website address like “[Google.com](https://Google.com)” into the IP address of Google’s computers (the ones that host their web server application for [google.com](https://google.com))
* So while most people think a server is a physical machine, it’s really the software running on the machine.
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