Would anyone be able to explain to me what you would use a server for and how you would go about making one. I am very dark on the subject, and have never really found out from anywhere else.
In a nutshell a server "serves". What it serves varies but a common server task is to serve data to multiple clients. A good example would be when you log onto a website like this one, there is a web server that serves up the web pages as the client (web browser) requests them.
There are many different server OSes available on Windows, Linux, OS x, etc...
Ohh ok, thanks I'll give it a read! Thanks for the help, I've heard of server editions of windows and linux, but I've just never understood how they've differed from normal versions of the OSs. Like I've ran a minecraft server on Linux Ubuntu before, but I'm not sure if thats the same thing.
