Server
What is server?
Server is computer or system that provide information, resources, services, or data to other client systems over the network. This type of architecture we can call it as client server model architecture.
Types
Based Hardware and functionality we can divided the server,
Based on the hardware,
- Rack Server: its designed for Rack for mounted the rack or
Cabinet
- Tower server: servers are singular computers with the dedicated purpose of a server – they are housed in a standalone upright cabinet, or “tower”, much like the tower of a personal desktop computer.
- Blade server: chassis-based server. Each server in the chassis we can call Blade, that means each blade contains server.

- Mainframe server: A mainframe is a large-scale computer with a sophisticated design and high workload capacity. Mainframes are large machines – about the size of a refrigerator or a stacked washer and dryer. They feature many swappable components and are highly configurable
Based on the Functionality
Based the server roles we can divide the server,
- File server
- Database server
- Proxy server
- Print server
- DNS server
- Domain Controller
- DHCP server
- Application server
- Web server
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