Computer/Server

Server

I decided to set up my own server.

My teacher is Karamoon.

He taught me about server the last weekend.

Firstly I needed to know what is server. I knew that there are “server” and “client”.

Server is the computer which is us the data and client is computer which just receives the data. Nowadays clients can be also are server. For example when we use P2P file share system, we download the file and at the same time we give the files. So we have vaguer category than before.

Here is the list of servers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
Mail servers
File servers (NFS, FTP/SCP): it is a storage place of data and many workstations can share that data. File servers are often categorized by the method of the access.

File servers may also be categorized by the method of access: Internet file servers are frequently accessed by File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or by HTTP. Servers on a LAN are usually accessed by SMB/CIFS protocol (Windows and Unix-like) or NFS protocol (Unix-like systems).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_server
NFS: Network File System Protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol)
FTP: network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as the Internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP
Web servers
Proxy servers.: This server transfers the request from the clients to the server which can answer to the requests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
print servers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_server
Database servers
Database servers provides access to a shared database via a database device driver, are not regarded as file servers.

Among these servers, I am planning to have “File servers” and “Database server”.