server

(noun)

A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

Related Terms

Examples of server in the following topics:

  • Providing Build Farms and Development Servers

    • A good way to help, and gain some goodwill in the process, is to donate the server space and bandwith and the technical expertise to set up the continuous integration and automated testing.
    • If you don't have the technical expertise available on staff, you could hire someone from the project to do it, or at the very least give some of the project's developers administrative access to the CI servers so they can set things up themselves.

  • Pre-notification

    • This is particularly true with client/server software, where there may be well-known servers that are tempting targets for attackers.
    • Those servers' administrators would appreciate having an extra day or two to do the upgrade, so that they are already protected by the time the exploit becomes public knowledge.
    • From: Your Name HereTo: admin@large-famous-server.comReply-to: Your Name Here (not the security list's address)Subject: Confidential Scanley vulnerability notification.
    • This email is a confidential pre-notification of a security alertin the Scanley server.
    • The server can be made to run arbitrary commands if the server's

  • Other Inputs to Pricing Decisions

    • Consider a software company that has developed software that allows its servers to host twice as much web space as its rivals.
    • Relative to buying two servers from a competitor, by buying one doubly efficient server from our company a firm would save $4000 in labor costs, $500 in electricity and $1,500 in software licenses.
    • The price of two servers from the competitor is $6,800.
    • Therefore, this suggests that the EVC of a server with the software is $6000 + $6800 = $12800.

  • Introduction to Fundamentals

    • (www.epa.gov) A recent IBM study dug even deeper, concluding that less than 4% of the energy going into a modern server farm actually processes data; 40% is needed to cool the room where the servers are located, another 40% is used to cool the interior of the machines, and over 16% is used to keep the servers idling in case a sudden increase in processing occurs.
    • MA, 2009) This means that 96% of the costs of operating a server area are used to perform activities that are unrelated to data processing.
    • For example, Yahoo saves 60% of its electricity costs by opening the doors and windows where its servers are located and letting the hot air out.

  • Conspicuous Use of Archives

  • Behavior Modification

    • A server might be motivated to perform better after receiving higher tips for exceptional service.
    • On the other hand, a server might be motivated to perform better after his or her boss received negative feedback from an unhappy customer.
    • For example, a restaurant manager might require the server who makes the most mistakes (such as mixing up orders) to pick up the least desirable shifts.

  • The GPL

    • See The GNU Affero GPL: A Version of the GNU GPL for Server-Side Code in Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents for more.

  • Introduction to IRC / Real-Time Chat Systems

    • While in theory your project could run its own IRC servers, it is generally not worth the hassle.
    • A given IRC server usually hosts many different channels.
    • When a user connects to the server, she chooses which of those channels to join, or her client software remembers and auto-joins them for her.
    • To speak to a particular person in an IRC channel, it is standard to address them by their username (nickname or nick), so they can pick out your inquiry from the other conversation in the room; see rants.org/2013/01/09/the-irc-curmudgeon for more on this practice. ) Freenode gives you the control you need to administer your project's IRC channels, while sparing you the not-insignificant trouble of maintaining an IRC server yourself.

  • The Simple Strategy

    • For example, if your project is a client/server application, then "backward-compatible" means that upgrading the server to 2.6.0 should not cause any existing 2.5.4 clients to lose functionality or behave differently than they did before (except for bugs that were fixed, of course).
    • On the other hand, upgrading one of those clients to 2.6.0, along with the server, might make new functionality available for that client, functionality that 2.5.4 clients don't know how to take advantage of.
    • Client/server protocols are just one of many possible compatibility domains.

  • What is operations management?

    • In another example, the owners of a restaurant must make important decisions regarding the location, layout, and seating capacity of the restaurant, the hiring, training, and scheduling of chefs and servers, the suppliers of fresh food at the right prices, and the purchase of stoves, refrigerators, and other food preparation equipment.