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 ...

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 ...

Anyone familiar with previous versions of Windows will find themselves right at home in Windows 2003 Server. If you’re not running a server in your small business and you have more than five employees ...

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.

What else will enterprise-wide client/server computing provide a city, county or state? Look to your local corporations for guidance.

Once an organization grows much beyond two or three people, the need to collaborate and share files inevitably runs into the severe limitations of disk swapping. Inevitably, you’ll hear from friends, ...

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 ...

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

An innovative server from a Silicon Valley startup uses cell phone chips to produce a low-power server.