What is a Server? Servers vs Desktops Explained

What are servers? This is an animated video explaining the difference between servers and desktop computers. This video also explains the difference between Xeon server CPUs and Intel core desktop CPUs.
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Print servers usually were the slowest machines you can think of. People would send their data to the print server. The print server would then print the files over hours until they run out of paper. The file is transfered quickly, however the printer needs much longer to print the page than to process the data. So it never mattered how slow the print server is, because the printer is always slower.

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An interesting and detailed explanation of the difference between a server and a desktop. As a bonus you explained the difference between Intel's Core and Xeon series of chips. And thanks for the notice that hard drives usually do not catch fire. I never would have known (lol).

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[@jimbo-dev]

2:16 Not true, only windows has this limitation, linux does not. Windows CAN handle unlimited amount of connections, but you have to pay for it, or install linux for free. Windows is not common in server world. So you absolutely can run server on desktop pc. 4:43 ZFS is also a common, more modern and more flexible option for raid, it provides similar features 5:24 Linux is both desktop and server operating systems and since macos server has been discontinued, separate server and desktop oses applies only to windows, which isn’t really used that often for real servers. (Ubuntu server is just Ubuntu without GUI) You could add ESXi and Citrix Hypervisor to the list of operating systems, but they are more datacenter territory. 6:37 Database server should never be publicly accessible, there should always be an API (Application Programming Interface) server between database and user. Additional common server ”types” are file and storage servers And then there are also mainframes which commonly are used as a server, but I don’t know enough to talk about. Really interesting video idea btw 🤔 And I understand that this video wasn’t created for me, but I added my comments to hopefully help someone getting started on server systems.

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I disagree, ZFS as a block storage is not a server grade storage solution. What he refers to in the video is hardware RAID which means block level storage using SAS disks and physical cache backed by battery and no write hole. In contrast ZFS's RAID is software only, so that's fine in your home server but not on a production server.

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While the linux kernel is the same, you've got server linux distributions in addition to desktop linux distributions... just like Windows actually. Linux is both desktop and server, that's only for the kernel part. Descent distributions are targeted towards a specific use like workstation or desktop... just like Windows: the kernel is the same but the userland components are arrange differently for server and workstation versions of the OS.

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Fun idea for the next one - difference between servers and mainframes. My rough understanding is that a mainframe can handle multiple connections like a server, but it can also handle a lot of processing. So a mainframe can act as a data server, but the mainframe really shines when it receives large files, processes the data into a different output, and can provide that data to others.