What Is A Server
Richard Amburn
For those of you who don’t really understand where or how your
web page is sitting on your hosting sever, this is a basic over
view of how it works.
A server is basically hardware and software and protocol. We
will go over these three basics of your hosting server.
• Server hardware.
Server hardware is so similar to your old PC hardware that the
price of server hardware has come down considerably. Down
enough that it’s tempting for a lot of us to host our own
server. But that’s a whole different article. All a server is:
• Very fast processor.
• A large amount of RAM.
• A vast amount of Disk Space.
• Connection to a T1 line (access to the outside world).
The hardware is housed in very large office buildings. There
are many racks of servers filling these climate controlled
rooms. Most of the server host brag of their 99% or better
uptime. This is very impressive and another reason to use a
server host. How often have you re-booted your PC in the past?
• Software. (Operating system)
There different operating systems on the market. Most likely
the software on your server is running Apache on Linux, an open
source product. Servers need to be secured and an open source
application is more likely to be less buggy and more secure
then their larger competitor Microsoft.
These servers use an interface for you to access and configure
them, a control panel. Some control panels are more complicated
then others. Depending how technical you are, this is a point of
concern when picking a server host.
• Protocol. (FTP)
To get your page on the server you need to FTP (file transfer
protocol). FTP is a client (you) server application. If you
created your page on your desk top, obviously to share it you
would need to get it on your server. It’s also used to transfer
files between your own pc to someone else’s computer.
This is a very simplistic overview of what a server host is,
but I hope it will give you a basic idea how it works.
About The Author: Richard Amburn
http://www.myspace-host-online.com
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