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What Is a Network Server?

Wednesday October 3, 2007
| Definition | A network server is a computer designed to process requests and deliver data to other (client) computers over a local network or the Internet. Examples include Web servers, proxy servers, and FTP servers. Not only should you be familiar with using servers on the Internet, an increasing number of people hvae learned to set up network servers for business and personal uses.
See also - Our recently updated list - Free Windows FTP Servers
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October 4, 2008 at 8:19 pm
(1) nancy says:

thanks for the definition

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