Server

Website Monitoring Dictionary

server is a computer machine (or a program), located in a data center and connected to the Internet.

There are different types of servers:

  • chat server [IRC server]
  • database server [SQL server]
  • file server [FTP server]
  • game server
  • mail server [SMTP server]
  • news server [Usenet server]
  • proxy server
  • web server [application server]