[Wikipedia-l] Servers

[Geoffrey Thomas]

--- "Merritt L. Perkins" <mlperkins3 at juno.com> wrote:
>           Servers
>           I have wanted a simple easy to understand description of what
> servers are and what they do.  Here is what I have figured out.
>           After reading the discussions about servers I looked in
> catalogs and read the descriptions of the servers that they had to offer.
>  A server is very much like an ordinary personal computer except it is
> larger and may have several very large hard drives to provide a lot of
> memory.  There has to be some way that other servers or computers can
> connect to it and communicate with it.  An ordinary personal computer
> could be used as a server but it couldn't store very much information.
>           One server model may have a full tower case, large power
> supply, special motherboard with two to four microprocessors, and six
> 10,000 rpm SCSI hard drives four of which are hot-swappable (can be
> changed while the server is operating).  They cost about $6,000.
>           Several servers may be involved in routing a call from your
> computer to its destination.  One server may be able to handle the calls
> from several computers at the same time.  A group of several servers may
> be located in one place and do different things and more than one can be
> loaded with the same data so that if one server fails another can take
> over or more than one server can share the traffic.
>       As the Encyclopedia gets larger and activity increases Wikipedia
> will probably need more and more server capacity.
>           Merritt L. Perkins

Can you license this to the GFDL so it can be included (with some
adaptations) in the article [[Server]]? The current article is a bit
short.

[[User:Geoffrey]] Thomas

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