What Is a Server?

✴️ The term "server" is used a lot in many contexts, but it's really just a computer.

✴️ What's a Server?
Servers are computers — often very similar to the computers we use ourselves — but often optimized to perform certain tasks in service to others.

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Chapters
0:00 What is a server
0:20 A computer that serves
1:18 Computers with a specialty
2:05 Mail servers
3:20 Dedicated versus shared

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