A computer network in which one centralized, powerful computer (called the server) is a hub to which many less powerful personal computers or workstations (called clients) are connected. The clients run programs and access data that are stored on the server. For example, to check your bank account from your computer, a client program in [...]
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client server network
Posted by admin on November 9th, 2011
Posted in Network, Tips 
Tags: client server network, peer to peer, server, what is client server network 
No Comments »Windows Home Server
Posted by shan on August 19th, 2010
Since launching in late April, Microsoft has been rather mum on the future of its latest Windows Home Server build. This week, however, the second major beta release has been let loose into the wilds, with Vail’s most recent build now available to download there in the source link. The Big M doesn’t go into [...]
Posted in Computer, Web, Windows Tags: download, mac, mac os x, MacOsX, microsoft, now available, NowAvailable, operating system, OperatingSystem, OS, os x, OsX, sdk, server, software, Vail, video, WHS, Windows Home Server, WindowsHomeServer 2 Comments »Who Has the Most Web Servers?
Posted by shan on August 18th, 2010
Netcraft has developed a technique for identifying the number of computers (rather than IP addresses) acting as web servers on the internet, and attributes these computers to hosting locations through reverse DNS lookups. This provides an independent view with a consistent methodology worldwide on the numbers of web servers, the rate of growth over time, [...]
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers
Posted by shan on August 16th, 2010
Google’s Jeff Dean was one of the keynote speakers at an ACM workshop on large-scale computing systems, and discussed some of the technical details of the company’s mighty infrastructure, which is spread across dozens of data centers around the world. In his presentation (link via James Hamilton), Dean also discussed a new storage and computation [...]
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers
Posted by shan on August 16th, 2010
How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008. Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space. A look at the [...]
what is web hosting ?
Posted by shan on August 16th, 2010
If you want to take part in the internet as a business, information resource, directory, or as a hobbyist wanting to share data, information and knowledge with the many people and communities on the internet, you have to contain this in a central spot on the internet. You have to own a piece of space [...]
The Complete Portable Web Server For Windows
Posted by shan on August 15th, 2010
XAMPP is an integrated server package of Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl (the AMPP in XAMPP) that all run from a removable drive. Everything is pre-configured and ready to go just by unzipping or installing it Menu Integration: XAMPP isn’t in PortableApps.com Format, but it easily integrates with the PortableApps.com Suite by using the XAMPP Launcher [...]
