---
title: "What is Server machine in computer world ?"  
description: "What is Server machine in computer world ?"  
author: "Shrikant Mishra"  
published: 2019-09-17  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72340/what-is-server-machine-in-computer-world  
category: "information technology"  
tags: ["information technology", "computer maintenance"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

---

# What is Server machine in computer world ?

What is [Server](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/710/apache-server-installation-on-windows) machine in the computer [world](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2334/what-would-occur-if-the-world-were-to-divide-in-half)?

## Answers

### Answer by Aditya Patel

The server is special computer software(program) or a device (an advance level hardware configuration) that provides a service to another computer program and its user, also known as the client. Into any data center, the physical computer that a server program runs in is also frequently referred to as a server. Those machines may be a dedicated server or it may be used for other purposes as well. According to the client/server programming model, the server program awaits and fulfills requests from client programs, which may be running in the same or other computers. The given application in a computer may function as a client with requests for services from other programs and also as a server of requests from other programs. Here we have made a list of some different types of servers, which are as follows -

- Webserver
- Application server
- proxy server
- MailServer
- virtual server
- blade server
- file server
- policy server

![What is Server machine in computer world ?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/839c0106-ca3e-4a50-86b3-cb4cececb609/images/ef44cd76-dfa4-4f86-a054-edc79804cace.png)\

In Hindi

- कंप्यूटिंग में, सर्वर एक कंप्यूटर प्रोग्राम या एक डिवाइस है जो अन्य प्रोग्राम या डिवाइस जिन्‍हे “क्लाइंट” कहा जाता है, के लिए फंक्शनलिटी प्रदान करता है।
- इस आर्किटेक्चर को क्लाइंट-सर्वर मॉडल कहा जाता है, और यह ओवरऑल कम्प्यूटेशन मल्टीपल प्रोसेसेस या डिवाइेसेस पर डिस्ट्रीब्यूट किया जाता हैं।

## History of Servers in List

- 1981 – The IBM VM Machine, पहला लिस्‍टेड सर्वर
- 1991 – NeXTCube, पहला वेब सर्वर
- 1994 – ProLiant, first Rack, पहला रैक-माउन्टेबल सर्वर
- 1998 – Sun Ultra II, पहला Google सर्वर
- 2001 – RLX Blade, पहला मॉडर्न ब्लेड सर्वर
- 2008 – PS3 Cluster, GPU के साथ डिस्ट्रिब्यूटेड कंप्यूटिंग
- 2009/2012 – क्‍लाउड और इसके परे

### Answer by Ink Web Solutions

## Server Machine in Computer World

A server is a computer or system that provides resources, data, services, or programs to other computers, known as clients, over a network. In theory, whenever computers share resources with client machines they are considered servers. Minicomputers were much smaller than mainframe computers, hence the name.

## More Information Join us Ink Web Solutions


---

Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72340/what-is-server-machine-in-computer-world

Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.