List all the different types of specialist server you can
think of or find via the internet and books (e.g. mail server). Briefly describe each one
1. Application
Server
o
Referred to as a type of middleware
o
Occupy a large chunk of computing territory between
database servers and the end user and they often connect the two.
2. Communication
Server
o
Handles many common communications functions for
the network, such as e-mail, fax, remote access, firewalls or internet
services.
3. Domain
controllers/directory servers
o
Authenticates and authorizes computers and users
to access resources within the logical domain
4. Fax servers
o
A system installed in a local area network
server that allows computer users who are attached to the LAN to send and
receive fax messages
5. File Servers
o
Stores network users’ data files
6. Print servers
o
Manages the printers that are connected to the
network and the printing of user documents on the network printers.
7. Mail Server
o
Move and store mail over corporate networks via
LANs and WANs and across the internet.
8. Web Server
o
Serves static content to a web browser by
loading a file from a disk and serving it across the network to a user’s
browser.
o
This entire exchange is mediated by the browser
and server talking to each other using HTTP.
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