Different servers do different things: from providing e-mail and video to protecting internal networks and hosting websites.
A server is often dedicated to something, meaning they no longer do anything other than their server duties. In the following, we classify many types of common servers in today’s market.
-Proxy Server (Proxy Server)
A proxy server sits between a client program (usually a web browser) and an external server (usually another server on the web) to filter requests, improve performance, and share communications.
– Mail server
Almost as important and ubiquitous as web servers, the e-mail server transports and stores mail across corporate networks (via local area networks or LANs and wide area networks or WANs) and across the Internet.
– Server Platforms
Server platforms is a term that is often used synonymously with the operating system, a hardware or software platform is the main infrastructure for a system and thus is considered the driving engine of the server.
– Web server
Specifically, a web server serves static content to a web browser by loading a file from a disk and serving it across the network to the user’s web browser. This exchange is generally done by a conversation between the browser and the server using HTTP.
– Application Server (Application Server)
It is sometimes referred to as a type of middleware. Application servers occupy a large space of the computing realm between the database servers and the end user, often connecting the two together.
-Real-Time Communication Server
Real-time communication servers, formerly known as chat servers or IRC servers, are sometimes referred to as instant messaging (IM) servers. These servers enable many users to exchange information almost instantaneously.
-FTP Server
One of the oldest services on the Internet is the File Transfer Protocol or FTP, which enables secure transfer of one or more files between computers while providing file security and organization along with transfer control.
– Collaboration Server (Collaboration Server)
In many ways, collaboration software, once known as “groupware,” represents the core power of the Web. The collaboration software is designed to empower users in the field of collaboration, regardless of location, through the Internet or the company’s intranet and collaboration in a virtual space.
– Email list server (List Server)
These servers use e-mail protocols such as SMTP, where all exchanged messages are shared among all members of the e-mail list. In fact, the way it works is similar to social networks. List servers provide a way to better manage mailing lists.
– Remote network server (Telnet Server)
A Telnet server allows users to log into a host computer and act as if they were working on that remote computer itself.
– Open Source Server
From the original open source server operating system to the server software that helps you do your job well, open source software is an important part of many IT infrastructures.
– Virtual Server
In 2009, the number of deployed virtual servers exceeded the number of physical servers. Today, server virtualization has an almost ubiquitous presence in the data center. From hypervision to hybrid cloud, virtualization technology is used.
