12 Type Of Servers And What They Do!

1. Real-Time Communication Servers

Also known as chat servers or IRC, and sometimes known as instant messaging (IM) servers, these
servers are meant to allow huge number users to exchange information instantly.

2. FTP Servers

This is one of the oldest of the Internet services available. The FTP or File Transfer Protocol allows
the users to securely transfer one or more files of any size between two computers.

3. Collaboration Servers

In many ways, collaboration software, once called 'groupware,' demonstrates the original power of
the Web. Collaboration software designed to enable users to collaborate, regardless of location, via
the Internet or a corporate intranet and to work together in a virtual atmosphere.

4. List Servers

List servers lets users better manage their mass mailing lists like open interactive discussions or one-
way lists to deliver newsletters, announcements or advertising.

5. Telnet Servers

The Telnet server lets the users on to a host computer control and work on remote computers.

6. Web Servers

At its core, a Web server serves static content to a Web browser by loading a file from a disk and
serving it across the network to a user's Web browser. This entire exchange is mediated by the
browser and server talking to each other using HTTP.

7. Virtual Servers

A virtual server is a web server which shares its resources with multiple users. It's another way of
saying that multiple web sites share the resources of one server.
8. Proxy Servers

Proxy server is a server which acts as an intermediary for requests between the users and the
servers. Client connects to the proxy server and the proxy server evaluates the requests sent by the
users simplifies them and control their complexities.

9. Mail Servers

Mail servers help in moving and storing the e-mail over a network via LANs and WANs or across the
Internet.

10. Server Platforms

Normally used in same context with that of operating systems, server platforms are the platforms
that are under the hardware or software of a system and the hence in the engine that drives the
server.

11. Open Source Servers

Similar to server platforms, Open source server are referred to the underlying open source operating
system used in the IT infrastructures of the companies.

12. Application Servers

Application servers are a type of middleware which connects the database servers and the app
users.