What is difference between Computer & Server ?

Question

Can any one please tell me what is the difference between Computer and SERVERS. Genrally we use computers (systems) in home, office, shops, and etc... but this SERVERS where we use. and difference with this two.

Regards

SRIDHAR

Answer 1

Hi Sridhar,

Think of a special kind of restaurant, where you get your own salad from the salad bar, your main course is brought to you by the "server". Therefore, the salad bar is your computer, the waiter is your "server." For some activities that you care about you need the computer. For the more specialized items that you need, you ask the server.

E.g when you are browsing on the internet, your computer is your computer, the websites that open on your computer are "served" by the computer that you connect to retrieve the website such as www.yahoo.com.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Both are computers. A server will have other software running on it than what you normally see running on a desktop machine. Whereas the desktop machine fires up a program to run, it will request from the Server. The Server might be running Apache and doesn't even have anything like a desktop. However, the Server determines who sent the request, what type of software generated the request and, as an everyday example, generate a custom web page to send back to the Client computer.

Servers are located all over the world, with the faster ones paying a premium monthly rate for a T! telephone connection line (the Server is always online). Routing centers are clustered at places like universities looking for receipts and forwarding requests and send files in little packets.

Answer 3

There is very little technical difference between them, other than servers typically have high-end peripherals it is just a computer.

I used a PDC server to play a network session of Quake 2 back when in high school.

In layman's term, a server usually some dedicated machine sitting in the backroom being a central repository of some task and associated info; while a computer they usually meant a workstation sitting on someone's desk being used by that person.

Answer 4

Computer is simply a computing device.On the other hand a server is a special computer/machine that waits for some events to happen,request to come from other machines.When the request comes,it gets the required processing and sends the result to the requesting machine.

Answer 5

You mean CLIENT and SERVER. At your workstation receiving info from another computer somewhere on the planet, you would be considered the client. The computer that "serves" you this information is considered to be the, you guessed it, "server".

Answer 6

Client(computer) is the one that connects to the Server.

The server listens for connections.. etc.

Answer 7

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