is a "server" a hardware or software?

William Vickerman: server can mean software, hardware, or a combination.it is perfectly normal to say something like "i installed a web server on my desktop pc". but someone else might say "the web server is down" and be talking about a dedicated physical computer in specialized hosting center.any computer can run a server (software). but when talking about server hardware, it means a machine intended specially designed to be used to run server software. it's still a PC, and you could run the same software it does on your desktop and vice versa. however, it has specialized cooling, more reliable, redundant hardware, and is designed to be mounted in a big rack of servers.basically, like many english words, "server" has several related but different meanings depending on context....Show more

Somer Distilo: To be honest, I don't think so

Maryland Gareau: Server can refer both to server software and machines designed to run that software.Examples of applicati! on server would be like the game servers written for World of Warcraft or games like that. Database servers could be like Oracle or MySQL and Web Servers could be like Apache2 Web Server.Any computer can act as a "server" as long as it is running server software, although there are companies that build computers that are specifically for running server software as opposed to PC's or Mac's/Server machines have all the components of regular computers (processer memory etc)...Show more

Tyree Allenbrand: combination of both

Chastity Doderer: I have asked the same question many times, and didn't receive a good answer

Jesusita Dykhoff: By that, I presume you mean the stuff inside, like graphics card, RAM, mother board etc? Then those are hardware, software is the stuff that controlls them, so drivers, and programs that utilize those things.

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Maynard Phoubandith: Usually servers are computers (hardware) with very powerful processors and a lot of RAM, depending on how many more computers they're serving. If they're web servers they might have fast hard drives as well. If they're servers for hosting online games then they will likely be connected to a very fast internet connection. One thing a server probably won't have is a video card.