What is server ? Explain with diagram.
power, but certain tasks are delegated to servers. In previous computing models, such as
other computers, known as clients, over a network.In theory, whenever computers share
•An individual system can provide resources and use them from another system at the
servers, including web servers, mail servers, and virtual servers.
to a display screen or printer. The actual computing was done on the server.
less-powerful client computers. This network architecture is often referred to as the
actual computing. These terminals, referred to as dumb terminals, existed simply to
the mainframe-terminal model, the mainframe did act as a server even though it wasn’t
•A server is a computer or system that provides resources, data, services, or programs to
were much smaller than mainframe computers, hence the name. However, as technology
client-server model, in which both the client computer and the server possess computing
the term microcomputer somewhat farcical.
accept input via a keyboard or card reader and to return the results of any computations
Later, servers were often single, powerful computers connected over a network to a set of
same time. This means that a device could be both a server and a client at the same time.
progressed, they ended up becoming much larger than desktop computers, which made
resources with client machines they are considered servers. There are many types of
•Some of the first servers were mainframe computers or minicomputers. Minicomputers
Initially, such servers were connected to clients known as terminals that did not do any
referred to by that name.
