Imagine that you live in a mansion, with a butler to assist you with everything you need. Just let him know what you want and he’ll take care of it.
A server or computer server is a computer that acts like a butler for you, giving you the information or computer process you need. You send a request to the server, for example, by using a browser to connect to a web page. The server then passes your request to the software you need the data from, in this case a web server. It then serves that information back to you in the form of the web page you wanted to access.
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