What is a DNS server? It’s a program or computer that handles a DNS query. There are four types of DNS servers, each with one specific function: The DNS resolver (or recursor), the Root ...

Data Server A data server is basically a computer without peripherals like monitors and keyboards.

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

Over the years I have provided computer consulting services for many businesses. While some of these small businesses have been simple one-man operations, many of them were larger. The thing that I ...

An innovative server from a Silicon Valley startup uses cell phone chips to produce a low-power server.

Multiplayer computer games use a centralized game server to track all the data concerning a game, and only make individual game clients deal with the data that immediately concerns each player.

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...

Client computing usually is about downloading data from the network, and often running client software in a client-server model.

Once an organization grows much beyond two or three people, the need to collaborate and share files inevitably runs into the severe limitations of disk swapping. Inevitably, you’ll hear from friends, ...