Server (computing)

In the ambience of client-server architecture, a server is a computer affairs active to serve the requests of added programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational assignment on account of "clients". The audience either run on the aforementioned computer or affix through the network.

In best accepted use, server is a concrete computer (a computer accouterments system) committed to active one or added such casework (as a host),1 to serve the needs of users of the added computers on the network. Depending on the accretion account that it offers it could be a database server, book server, mail server, book server, web server, or other.

In the ambience of Internet Protocol (IP) networking, a server is a affairs that operates as a atrium listener.2

Servers generally accommodate capital casework beyond a network, either to clandestine users central a ample alignment or to accessible users via the Internet. For example, aback you access a concern in a chase engine, the concern is beatific from your computer over the internet to the servers that abundance all the accordant web pages. The after-effects are beatific aback by the server to your computer