The role Server

First, let's look at what is a server? Server, also known as the server is to provide computing services equipment. Since the server needs to respond to service requests and processed, so in general the server should have the capacity for services and security services. Configuration server includes a processor, hard drive, memory, a system bus, and general computer architecture is similar to, but due to the need to provide high availability services, processing power, stability, reliability, security, scalability, higher requirements management and so on.
Under normal network environment, according to the different types of services provided by the server into a file server, database server, application server, WEB server and so on.

The role of the server for modern web applications, can be very important, leave the server support, essentially all. Internet does not operate normally. The main server has two effects: First, in response to a service request of the terminal, and processed. We is not possible when the Internet directly to the network access the Internet, we all need to connect to a network through a server, only the server response to your request network, and can be processed only after the network; the second is the storage function, storage server space is generally more abundant, you can store a lot of information.

Contemporary application server as an integral part of the development of network hardware equipment, or to provide a more diverse service functions in the future.