Server Stuff, RAID, and More!

[DyroZang]

Ok, so I have been getting into programming a lot lately, I'm not too good or anythings but I was a bit interested in more server side things. What do servers include, like what is RAID exactly, is there any programming involved in server stuff? I'm confused but trying to learn. Are servers just used to host things like game servers or are there other uses? I'm just looking for an overall view on servers and how they work and what they do. If anyone could help me out on this it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[TheCherryKing]

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAID is designed to improve performance and/or add redundancy to hard drives or SSDs. Servers can be used for a variety of things such as a web server, game server, file server, and management server.

[manikyath]

a server is *just a computer* like any other, which is used to provide services of sorts.

 

for example websites are ran on "servers", most companies have a "server" that holds the company data, when you connect to a game server, that's hosted on a "server" as well (excluding kiddo's that think it's a good idea to host them on their main desktop), etc.

 

but at the base, a server is essentially just a computer that is running applications, like any other.

 

as for raid, wikipedia describes it very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

[baxtmann]

6 hours ago, DyroZang said:

Ok, so I have been getting into programming a lot lately, I'm not too good or anythings but I was a bit interested in more server side things. What do servers include, like what is RAID exactly, is there any programming involved in server stuff? I'm confused but trying to learn. Are servers just used to host things like game servers or are there other uses? I'm just looking for an overall view on servers and how they work and what they do. If anyone could help me out on this it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Servers are just essentally super baller computers that cost all the moneys. Basically servers are used in situations where there are going to be a lot of users/load on some type of software. Whether thats a website, F@H or similiar applications, game servers, test servers, media servers.... etc, where you will put enough load on them that a "mainstream" computer couldn't handle the load.

Servers are built with this in mind, which is why when you are getting a server, more cores is better generally, because the more cores, the more threads (or independent things) your computer can handle. A lot of the time people think of servers as the things that run the "back-end" of an application, and in reality, the only time you need a server for any application is if you are going to have a proper back-end. If you are just making some random website in HTML, you don't need a server, but if you are creating, for example, a early access video streaming platform, you need a server because there is intense backend operations happening (video transcoding, streaming said video... etc) 

So basically, there are lots of differnet scenarios where programming is involved on the server-side. 

 

Hope this helps!

[samiscool51]

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RAID!

(not realy) it's mainly used to ensure if data is safe on mutiple drives

a simple RAID setup works as follows

very simple, don't use this set up though for a normal server, this is just an example even though you can do it if you want