Comment on A server and a web server are different things ?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 week ago
Server is a general term. Webservers are a subset. We have video camera surveillance servers, telephone servers, internal document servers, web servers. They’re all servers. And webservers are one variant of it.
Even what we watch on the TV are servers.
A server is a fantastic concept per se.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 week ago
Yeah, I skipped the more ambiguous ones. Netflix, Amazon, Youtube etc will distribute their content via the web. So they’re kinda webservers. Though the infrastructure which feeds in cable TV aren’t. It’s complicated.
Do you realise that the market has also become one huge server ?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 week ago
What do you mean by that? Centralization of the internet? And an uptake in capitalism, to a degree that it’s now a handful of companies and providers who do the lion’s share of everything? Sure, that’s been happening since 2010 or so, plus minus a few years.
It’s not one huge server, though. They’ll have datacenters all across the globe.