thought about this while making my minecraft server, what is a server?
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It’s a computer that does things for other computers.
So it serves them, it’s a server.
It’s something that’s always on some kind of network, usually something thing connected to the internet.
What the thing it does depends on what kind of server it is.
For most game servers, the server tracks where everything in the game world is and figures out how it all interacts.
The client (EG your computer) tells the server what you want your character to do and the server tells you what happened in the game world.
But it could be something like giving you a stream of video information, or doing your bank stuff.
Now a days, it’s much more common for the computer to not be a real computer, but rather a virtual machine running on another computer (a lot of it is done by Amazon).
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