What is a Server? (Deepdive)
Video Overview & Insights
With this video I explain my ~17y/o self what a "Server" is. We look at server software and servers in datacenters to understand how the word is used.
Another fun example is a linux display server (like X11): it's a program that has a screen it can display things on and a mouse and keyboard it can read from; graphical programs then connect to it as clients via something like dbus to ask for those inputs and tell it what to display.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to "What is a Server?"
I have graduated in cybersecurity and I was today years when I really understood what a server was.
00:47 - Wikipedia Server Definition
01:42 - Game Servers
Quality video bro 🙏
02:50 - Client and Server Communication
04:30 - Web Servers
Good video
05:10 - A Server is just a Program
06:38 - A Server is just a Computer
Great information! Thank you. 👍👍
08:30 - Server Hardware
10:10 - What is Server Software?
Finally I know what is server, thanks so much.I always feel I am dumb when I am in computer lesson.
11:54 - Servers are Everywhere
14:00 - Related Terms and Thought Experiment
The first time I came across this I was just getting into web dev and while I thought it was a great video then, being new to it all I didn't really have the context to truly understand the technical terms being used. A few years and some experience later, I stumbled upon this video again and its wild how watching this now everything just clicked because I have more context haha. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this and helping folks like me learn :)
17:04 - Outro
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Any computer that can run software. I'm actually off to buy a rackmounted server tonight lol
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Atleast somebody gets me.Thanks man that was genuinely good , you helped me stop wasting another day of my life..
More User Perspectives
This was an allegory of human communication and how we should interact in the modern world :)
@JonMurrayThank you. This was indeed helpful.
@olu3978Great video lost me at 10min mark 😂. I’m a newbie studying for ComTIA Network +
@doobieornotdoobie88I have watch 40 videos full of slop that don't really explain anything. This has finally cleared everything up for me
@laurencamila9024This was refreshing
@AndyFiifiAshongI dont really comment on videos but this one particularly felt like a dialogue rather than a lesson. You explained it in a manner that left it without any more questions
Thank you
Good video! Very explaining!!
@fghau-r1vThanks
@cudexcit was super helpful to visualize the terms so efficiently! Great effort ..
@shafiulbitshafiThanks so much
@MohammadAlhashmi-p5oMan, great video!!! You explained very well. And me as well have had a lot of trouble getting a deep dive into this topic. Thanks a lot.
@m-viniI love videos like these that deep dive into things , for almost an year i learnt new stacks fastly without really understanding them, then one day I decided to built a web dev project from scratch and understand beyond abstraction and it started with a simple question "what is html" and I thought n thought but couldn't come up with anything other then that it's a computer language.
@entropeed9020Thanks man I am 17 years old and this helped a lot man ❤❤❤
@Shaury-y6kReally nice
@krishnamjandyal8398Great content!!!
@mohamedaaqib7993Why not just continue using the word master and slave, since going over to other terms just made it more confusing.
@StekpannanThis content is just amazing, I can't thank you enough!
@frusciantebosteroYou served awesome examples for me to understand what a server is. Thanks.
@kichigan1brilliant!
@DloziMthethwabro just peak in relatebility at 8:47
@Ankitatserenityyou just made my perspective clear! Thank you so much.
@muhammadahmedsiddiqui9382Thank you! Very helpful.
@CamBDeanThank you !
@pavithrabasker2591THANK YOU
@voodoochili12The kind of teacher I always wanted.
@adishjoshi2996Great, clear and informative. Are NASs from TerraMaster also servers?
@Mehrdad-eb5onAnother example of client-server/IPC technology could be Pipestream.
@dreadserpantIncredibly helpful! Currently, studying for a CompTIA cert. This creates a perfect mental framework so that I can see the abstract concepts clearly. Thanks!
@logicisthejuice3240domain expansion: malovenant backhsots
@nito8066When will I get tipped as a client?
@henryl7421Shieet! slow down 😅
@bikashnepal1377I'm quitting IT. Fk this video!
@thinkpositive3667The videos you make for your seventeen-year-old self are making a fourty-year-old man (me) very happy! Thank you so much!
@alejandrobanderas3577Well described
@AlexanderGeorge1991Iv heard your server explanation having a d&d player gm relationship to 😆
@TheFreelancer131dude i was literally 17 at the time of release of this video thanks
@BEBETTER-1Im 17 years old and i have the exact same problem than the 17 y/o version of you. great
@nilsulrich5899so, as a little note/summary to self ~ a web-server serves website data, a game-server serves game data, a home-server serves personal data ~•~ i came into this video thinking of servers more as hardware than data-serving softwares/programs ~•~ maybe taking it a step further, given their specialization, servers are programs run on specialized hardware capable of the large amount of bandwidth they are capable of funneling (like a restaurant server who’s an octopod can carry out many more plates from the kitchen [data center] than a measly 2-armed humanoid) 🤷♂️
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