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”.