If you own a domain or manage a website, you’ve undoubtedly come across name servers. These machines are responsible for moving traffic around the internet, but what is a name server, exactly ...

What is a DNS server? It’s a program or computer that handles a DNS query. There are four types of DNS servers, each with one specific function: The DNS resolver (or recursor), the Root ...

In the classic server-workstation model, the computer you personally use for your work is a work station.

With cloud computing there is an overhead that is cause by having distributed resources. On a dedicated server the resources are all there in one place and don't need a hypervisor to connect and ...

Multiplayer computer games use a centralized game server to track all the data concerning a game, and only make individual game clients deal with the data that immediately concerns each player.

Client computing usually is about downloading data from the network, and often running client software in a client-server model.

Summary Serverless offers zero server management, no upfront provisioning, auto-scaling to meet traffic demands, and is cost-effective: you only pay for the resources used.

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...