Monday, April 2, 2007

21st entry - Servers

Server is a very important component in the Internet environment, this is because server able to store a huge amount of data compared to desktop computing. It able to execute queries up to billion per day and perhaps more than that. With such huge amount of queries from the users, it able to provide information to the users that connected to it without much difficulty.

There are variety types of server available out to perform its own function. Server such as referring from Wikipedia (2007) ;
  • Application Server, specialize in executing certain software application,
  • Communication Server, dealing with communication purposes.
  • Game Server, hosting online games that currently on high demand in gaming industry.
  • File Server, provide file services.
  • Web Server, provide web site services such as web hosting.
  • and many other more type of servers.
Reference
Wikipedia (2007), "Servers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server