What is Server | What are well known servers

What is Server

A  server is a computer that provides services to other computers connected to a network. Servers can provide a wide variety of services, such as file sharing, printing, web hosting, and email.

What are well known servers

Application Servers

Application Server is a type of server designed to install, operate, and host applications. It's commonly paired with a web server or contains a web server, which means the two can be converged and named a web application server.

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Mail Servers

Mail server is a system (software) that is used to send and receive emails. There are usually multiple separate components that handle either sending or receiving. When a user sends an email from its email account, mail server uses SMTP protocol to connect to external mail server where remote mailbox is located and deliver the email message.

Mail server gets messages from client computers and sends them to other mail servers and it also sends emails to client computers. All the computers and devices whether these are desktop, mobile or tablet are client computers.

Proxy Servers

A proxy server is a computer that acts as an intermediary between an Internet client and another server. That is, when a user navigates through a proxy, it does not connect directly to the server where the information is located but requests the content from a said intermediary, which is directed to the main server and, subsequently, returns the response to the client.

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Real-Time Communication Servers

Real-time communication servers, formerly known as chat servers or IRC Servers, and still sometimes referred to as instant messaging (IM) servers, enable large numbers users to exchange information near instantaneously.

Virtual Servers

Virtual servers have the same capabilities as a physical server, but not the underlying physical machinery. A physical server can create multiple, separate virtual servers with a hypervisor

Web Servers

Web servers are computers that deliver Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name. If you are looking to create a simple web server, Windows offers a free feature called IIS (Internet Information Services) that you could look into. With IIS, you can attach your website so it can be running directly from your computer. 

A Web server is a program or hardware that uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and other protocols to respond to requests made by clients over the WWW.  Web server hardware is connected to the internet and permits the sharing of data with other connected computers.

Database Server

Generally, a database server refers to a computer in a LAN that is committed to database storage and retrieval. A database server can also be a part of the file server that also houses applications and non-database files.

A database management system is software that facilitates communication with a database.

the Database is responsible for back end data processing. It helps to store, organize, manage, and access data on a computer system.

Print server

A print server, or printer server, is a device that connects printers to client computers over a network. It accepts print jobs from the computers and sends the jobs to the appropriate printers. A print server may be a networked computer with one or more shared printers.

Gaming server

Large gaming networks use servers to connect users from around the world. These servers host multi-player online games.

Monitoring and management server

Monitoring servers are responsive to network administrators who survey network health to check for threats or bugs in the system.

File server

A file server is a computer responsible for the central storage, distribution & management of data, files & folders so that other computers on the same network can access them.

In computing, a file server is a computer attached to a network that provides a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files that can be accessed by the workstations that are able to reach the computer that shares the access through a computer network.

FTP Servers

FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol”. It is designed for transferring files/folders between two computers. FTP was originally designed in 1970s. An FTP server is a computer that allows another computer to either 1. Write a copy of a file onto the FTP server or 2. Read a copy of a file that is stored on the FTP server. In order to read from or write to an FTP server, the other computer must use software called an “FTP client”. An FTP client can write a copy of a file onto an FTP server or read a copy of a file from an FTP server.

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Windows Server 

Windows server is one of server operating system designed by the Microsoft Corporation. Windows servers are more powerful versions of their desktop operating system and Windows server is designed to more efficiently handle corporate networking, Internet/intranet hosting, databases, enterprise-scale messaging and similar functions.

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Exchange Server

MS Exchange Server is basically an email server developed by Microsoft which runs on Windows Server operating system. In addition to email, it also has collaboration, calendaring, scheduling and contact management features. The exchange server is a powerful and secure emailing system for small to large enterprise companies.

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Telnet Servers

A Telnet server is a process running on a computer that allows a remote user to connect, via a network such as the Internet, to the computer and issue CLI commands to the computer as if he were sitting at the keyboard of the computer.

Telnet is an old-style remote-access protocol, that we used to use to access other machines, whether they were across the room, or across the world. They provide a text-only interface.

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Domain name system (DNS) server

DNS (Domain Name Server/System) is used to translate a host name like www.google.com to an IP address. It's like the telephone book for the internet. It makes using the Internet much easier than having to remember a series of numbers to get to a website.

The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn't know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.

The DNS server will contain a list or records which have the domain names and the IP addresses they are registered with.

SQL Server

SQL Server allows you to create databases and access them using SQL (Structured Query Language). The server can host more than one database at a time. So if you have two departments in your company, and they each have different needs, you can service those two different needs - with different data structures.

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