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Exactly what is a server?
I hear windows server, using your box as a server
mail server, web server, irc server, blah
How do you go about hosting a server
what is the difference?
I wish someone would write a tutorial on this
Please help me out !
Edit: ::sperm::
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...er&btnG=Search
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm
It's a computer that serves a specific thing. Hosts files for the network for everyone to access, it can be a protection against unauthorized access to the network etc....
My wife is my server... or wait... sounds like server, anyways.
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Sure she is Neg. :rolleyes:Quote:
My wife is my server...
Memory, you missed my title:
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Men rule the world. I am my master's servant. :)
Well if he's your slave and your owned by him, you tell him what to tell you what to do right ? YOure one messed up couple hehe
Behind every strong man, there's ... umm.... something...
I need to go to Germany and grab all of your throw away trim. And with that said, |The|Specialist gets his air tickets and puts on his leather gimp suit with a swastika armband.
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Men rule the world.
Thanks, I wasn't sure if the ladies like that level of confidence or not.
Assuming there is something to back it up....confindence goes a *long* way. :)
(no tutorial here, just simplified basic information)
Any device or computer whose regular job is to give "what users are needing" can be looked at as a Server. Simply, it serves you something, hence the word Server.
Servers can be data storage boxes hooked up to your network for the purposes of storing your backups, usually called Network Attached Storage or NAS.
OR
Servers can be expensive complicated computers that serve multiple users something, say, files, applications, or Internet access, etc., and with the proper equipment even a printer can become a Print Server.
An operating system doesn't necessarily need a title with the words "Server" in order to qualify as being a Server, as in System 36, IBM AS400 or IBM RS6000. Although a proper Server sometimes has the words "Server" in it's name, like Linux Enterprise Server or Windows 2003 Server.
Even Windows 98 or XP Home can and has acted as a limited Server for some people, but realize that a TRUE Server is created with the idea of being a Server from the ground up, boasting a unique Operating System with special options, different hardware, special software tools, dedicated setups and other necessities in order to perform it's job in a way that sets it apart from other computers. Servers are also much more expensive than regular desktop computers.
Hope this helps.
so why couldnt just an external hard drive be used as servers. Not go through all that money to have a box be a server. I have an external hardrive with all my goodies on it and i just mount it in all the directories around my own network.
Whats the diff?
The NAS devices I mentioned do a bit more than simply store, they have a version of Linux OS installed. That shouldn't have been a part of this discussion, So I better retract the above statement that NAS are servers, they are better looked at as storage, as the name explicitly says.
Note that Servers have a CPU or some processing unit (print server) in order to get it's job done.
The external hard drive does not qualify as a Server. The external harddrive cannot arbitrate the simultaneous usage of files between users, it cannot think, it is simply an external harddrive.
It really depends on the context of the word. You may be talking about a piece of physical hardware such as a server machine, or you may be talking about software in the form of a process that provides some sort of service to other clients.
That's what it all basically adds up to, a piece of hardware or software that provides a service of some kind to clients (hard or soft).
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Originally posted here by mathgirl32
Memory, you missed my title:
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Men rule the world. I am my master's servant. :)
edit >> omg that "everyone" was suppoused to be "everything" worst typo ever >.<
v_Ln
[wayofftopic]Whilst we're hijacking the thread...
Gentlemen, ladies, and others we're not quite sure of, I give you Nature.
Consider, for a moment, if you will, a pride of Lions. The alpha male of said pride enjoys his position by lazing about in the shade while his lionesses fetch him food. He rises only when his pride is threatened by outsiders, most especially by other male lions. The females not only tend to the rearing of their young, they stalk, capture and kill food as well.
Now we leave our lions to proceed onward virtually any warm blooded creature of your choosing - they're all male dominated. In the avian world, the males have the brightest colors, and do little of the nest-sitting during egg hatching season. One rooster rules the henhouse.
Enough Wild Kingdom - I submit to you that male dominance is the natural order of things. MathGirl is perfectly correct in her submission to Negative, so long as he never (and I'm sure he won't) abuses that power he's been given.
"But what's in it for me then?" I've been asked countless times when discussing such beliefs with females. I give them all the same textbook response I'll post here for your benefit. "If the male is wise and worthy, he will provide you with everything you shall ever need, some of what you want, and nothing bad; He will strive to give you a life free of worry and fear, and make you want for nothing."
In this mixed-up society in which we live today, I fail to find many males of our species who can live up to such duties. I also find many females who try to fill that male role. Any examples of this I could cite would be portrayed as quite unhappy, as I've failed to meet any truly happy couple in such a situation.
Having the final 'Yea or Nay' on things doesn't make us Gods - it makes us male, pure and simple. We men are still quite human; quite capable of errors in both decision and judgement. It is wisdom which guides us to listen to all inputs before making that final decision, and wisdom which leads us to act accordingly with both respect and kindness to our partners. [/wayofftopic]
[ontopic]What is a server? Easy - a server is a computer, nothing more. It provides files, softwares, data, routing, or whatever to a network of machines. It allows for the sharing of resources within a network, either by allowing the software it provides to be run on it (server-centric networking - hogs bandwidth), or by providing files integral to normal operations of the network (file server, data server). Usually, but not always, a server is the fastest, most powerful computer on a network, or should be. One might use a dual-processor 3.2 Ghz box set up with RAID 5 to run an entire lumber yard/hardware store, controlling all POS transactions, inventory, etc., networked through some intelligent terminals, some semi-intelligent terminals, and some dumb ones. In the example I cited, intelligent terminals would sit in 'the office' where bookkeeping takes place, and software needs to be run on the terminal with file access to the server, and the boss wants to surf the internet. Semi-intelligent terminals at each POS station which record on the spot transactions then dump them to the server at close of business, and dumb terminals in the receiving department where a clerk uses her UPC scanner to record new merchandise directly into the system. Sometimes servers take other forms than the 'computer look' - for example a print server, which controls access to one printer and allows the network to use it, can be so small as to fit in your shirt pocket, or as large as a typical desktop box. I use my old 286 for my print server.
Hope that answered your question. [/ontopic]
While all of what I said is true (and the answer lies is Ayn Rand's AtlasShrugged) .....
I want to apologize for hijacking this thread. It was a Becks Beer induced post. Anyway, the thread started with a decent question and a lot of good answers. So, I apologize for detracting from that.
Behind every strong man lies.... am empty glass of beer, waiting to be filled once again.