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Server (computing) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Wikimedia Foundation  servers First  WWW  server located at  CERN with its original sticker that says: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!" In computing, a  server  is a  computer program  or a  device  that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called " clients ". This  architecture  is called the  client–server model , and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sharing data or  resources  among multiple clients, or performing computation for a client. A single server can serve multiple clients, and a single client can use multiple servers. A client process may run on the same device or may connect over a network to a server on a different device. [1]  Typical servers are  database servers