What is a Server?

What is a Server?

Microsoft Server is a generic name given to computer units on computer networks that are accessible to clients (users), which are open to use and sharing, or some services (FTP, E-Mail, Website). If the server publishes a Web site according to the service it offers, the computer is named as Web Server, if it publishes mail services, they are named as E-Mail Server or Database server.

As the server will respond to requests from hundreds of different users at the same time, it contains faster and larger storage spaces than our desktop computers in performance. We use hardware with 2 Intel Xeon CPUs, 128 GB ram and 4 TB SSD disk for publishing every 1000 sites. These resources are sufficient to fulfill many sites and requests made to these sites. In our home, it will be unnecessary to use such a computer if commercial applications will not work. Therefore, in server-client architecture, servers are designed to be stronger and suitable for long-term operation.

What is a Server? What are the types?

In the Server / Client architecture, the side that stores, organizes and presents data is called a short server.

Server (Server) is a generic name given to computer units on computer networks that are accessible to clients (users), which are open to use and sharing, or some services (FTP, E-Mail, Website). If the server publishes a Web site according to the service it offers, the computer is named as Web Server, if it publishes mail services, they are named as E-Mail Server or Database server.

What are the server types?

As mentioned above, server types are named and separated according to the services they offer. Just as there are separate servers for these services, the same server can usually publish Web, Email, Virtualization or database services together.

File Server: The server where the files shared by users on a network are given to the computer.

Database Server: These are the servers created to provide database services. Clients can use various SQL statements depending on the authority given on the database servers. For example, SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle are the most well-known database servers.

Web Server (Site Publishing Server): It is responsible for storing web pages on the Internet and sending these pages to the requesting users.

Proxy Server: It is a proxy server used during internet access. The computer that will access the internet will log out through the proxy server. Thus, a page that is visited a lot is taken to the proxy server cache and it increases the access speed by sending the web page from the cache to the requesting computer.

DNS Server: They are used to store records and domain redirects in the Domain Name System. When we need IP address information for a domain on the network, we can find it by querying on the DNS server.

SMTP Server (SMTP Server): Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is a simple Mail transfer protocol, carries out all mail arrival and traffic, mail communication between servers. When we want to send or receive mail, we can do it by the SMTP Server.