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what is the job of servers how do they work.? - prbhkr_knchrl

Best Answer: If, in fact you are speaking of a network server: A computer or device on a network that manages network resources. For example, a file server is a computer and storage device dedicated to storing files. Any user on the network can store files on the server. A print server is a computer that manages one or more printers, and a network server is a computer that manages network traffic. A database server is a computer system that processes database queries. Servers are often dedicated, meaning that they perform no other tasks besides their server tasks. On multiprocessing operating systems, however, a single computer can execute several programs at once. A server in this case could refer to the program that is managing resources rather than the entire computer. - VintageShannon

Server is a machine which is used to store/validate/distribute data in different forms across to either validated/nonvalidated users depending on the requirement. for ex. for using your mails.. u logon to www.yahoo.com there u connect to yahoo server and get data after validating from yahoo which is stored on yahoo servers... - lost_in_dreams

Depending on the type of server - Subrata

this is a powerful machine in a network dedicated to performing tasks of complex nature and delegating some of this work to other workstations for example we can have a mail server that is dedicated to serving mails to all other clients in the network we may also have a database server that stores the database and all other workstations requiring database services has to login unto it. - danmwas2005

servers are big or super computers, sometimes they are jsut normal personal pc, servers can store data and make comunication between other pcs/servers servers are like the dridge which conect 2 banks ...but servers connect pcs.. website servers are computers or super comuters connected to the internet with very high internet speed ,it stores website data like files and databases or images servers can be a computer with windwos serer isntalled or apache server ..for websites and otehr uses mostly servers used for network,internet - ali_auday

Server: A computer that delivers information and software to other computers linked by a network. In general, all of the machines on the Internet can be categorized as two types: servers and clients. Those machines that provide services (like Web servers or FTP servers) to other machines are servers. And the machines that are used to connect to those services are clients. When you connect to Yahoo! at www.yahoo.com to read a page, Yahoo! is providing a machine (probably a cluster of very large machines), for use on the Internet, to service your request. Yahoo! is providing a server. Your machine, on the other hand, is probably providing no services to anyone else on the Internet. Therefore, it is a user machine, also known as a client. It is possible and common for a machine to be both a server and a client, but for our purposes here you can think of most machines as one or the other. A server machine may provide one or more services on the Internet. For example, a server machine might have software running on it that allows it to act as a Web server, an e-mail server and an FTP server. Clients that come to a server machine do so with a specific intent, so clients direct their requests to a specific software server running on the overall server machine. For example, if you are running a Web browser on your machine, it will most likely want to talk to the Web server on the server machine. Your Telnet application will want to talk to the Telnet server, your e-mail application will talk to the e-mail server, and so on... As far as the Internet's machines are concerned, an IP address is all you need to talk to a server. For example, in your browser, you can type the URL http://209.116.69.66 and arrive at the machine that contains the Web server for HowStuffWorks. On some servers, the IP address alone is not sufficient, but on most large servers it is. Because most people have trouble remembering the strings of numbers that make up IP addresses, and because IP addresses sometimes need to change, all servers on the Internet also have human-readable names, called domain names. For example, www.howstuffworks.com is a permanent, human-readable name. It is easier for most of us to remember www.howstuffworks.com than it is to remember 209.116.69.66. The name www.howstuffworks.com actually has three parts: The host name ("www") The domain name ("howstuffworks") The top-level domain name ("com") Domain names within the ".com" domain are managed by the registrar called VeriSign. VeriSign also manages ".net" domain names. Other registrars (like RegistryPro, NeuLevel and Public Interest Registry) manage the other domains (like .pro, .biz and .org). VeriSign creates the top-level domain names and guarantees that all names within a top-level domain are unique. VeriSign also maintains contact information for each site and runs the "whois" database. The host name is created by the company hosting the domain. "www" is a very common host name, but many places now either omit it or replace it with a different host name that indicates a specific area of the site. For example, in encarta.msn.com, the domain name for Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia, "encarta" is designated as the host name instead of "www." A set of servers called domain name servers (DNS) maps the human-readable names to the IP addresses. These servers are simple databases that map names to IP addresses, and they are distributed all over the Internet. Most individual companies, ISPs and universities maintain small name servers to map host names to IP addresses. There are also central name servers that use data supplied by VeriSign to map domain names to IP addresses. If you type the URL "http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm" into your browser, your browser extracts the name "www.howstuffworks.com," passes it to a domain name server, and the domain name server returns the correct IP address for www.howstuffworks.com. A number of name servers may be involved to get the right IP address. For example, in the case of www.howstuffworks.com, the name server for the "com" top-level domain will know the IP address for the name server that knows host names, and a separate query to that name server, operated by the HowStuffWorks ISP, may deliver the actual IP address for the HowStuffWorks server machine. On a UNIX machine, you can access the same service using the nslookup command. Simply type a name like "www.howstuffworks.com" into the command line, and the command will query the name servers and deliver the corresponding IP address to you. So here it is: The Internet is made up of millions of machines, each with a unique IP address. Many of these machines are server machines, meaning that they provide services to other machines on the Internet. You have heard of many of these servers: e-mail servers, Web servers, FTP servers, Gopher servers and Telnet servers, to name a few. All of these are provided by server machines. - Fusion

Depending on the type of server. They can range from serving websites to serving email. Some servers serve pornography, so we'd call them porn servers. Basically a server is a machine attached to the internet that is dedicated to giving some form of information out to the right people. Thus, anything can be a server to serve just about anything. - staplez

Servers are the same as waiters. They get your food and SERVE it to you. I tip the good ones about 20-40%. ALWAYS TIP 40%! Especially to me. - dinochirus

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