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Serverit are computing systems that provide services to clients over a network. The term covers both physical machines and software-based instances that run services such as web hosting, database processing, or file storage. In everyday IT usage, a server is expected to respond to requests, manage resources, and maintain service availability.

Typical server types include web servers, application servers, database servers, mail servers, file servers, and proxy or load balancer servers. They can operate on dedicated hardware in data centers or as virtual servers running on shared infrastructure in the cloud. Servers are often specialized for their role but can be generalized to support multiple services.

Operation and architecture: in client-server models, servers listen for requests on specific network ports and return responses to clients. They may be organized behind load balancers to distribute traffic, and deploy redundancy, failover, and clustering to improve reliability and uptime. Monitoring and configuration management help ensure performance and stability.

Management and security: effective server management involves provisioning, software updates, capacity planning, backup strategies, and access controls. Physical data centers provide power, cooling, and networking, while security measures such as firewalls, encryption, strong authentication, and least-privilege access help protect services and data from unauthorized use or disruption.

Historically, servers evolved from centralized mainframe resources to dedicated UNIX/Linux and Windows servers, with virtualization and cloud computing enabling scalable, on-demand deployment across many locations.