Server (computing)
A server is a physical computer dedicated to run one or more services, to serve the needs of the users of other computers on a network. Depending on the computing service that it offers it could be:
- database server
- file server
- mail server
- print server
- web server
- gaming server
- other kinds of server.
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the “clients”.