Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2024

It's been my impression that Mastodon users are a bit more techie than most people.

So I'm curious to know just how techie, and today's question is:

Do you have a server in your home?

If you want to tell me what you use it for as a reply, that would be interesting.

(Boosts for extra reach appreciated)

#Techie #TechieStuff #Computers #HomeServers

Yes, running Windows
2%
Yes, running Linux
51.5%
Yes, running something else
6.4%
No
40.1%
Poll ended at .
Show threadMarty Fouts
@statsguy pretty much every modern general purpose computer runs servers without the user necessarily being aware of it, so unless you restrict “server” to the sense of dedicated server then nearly 100% of your replies should be yes.
Sep 17, 2024 at 12:59pmWeb
Show threadMarty FoutsSep 17, 2024
@statsguy but even then people might have servers that they don’t know are servers. Digital picture frames might be media servers for example.
Show threadAdam Jacobs 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2024
@MartyFouts I probably wouldn't count that, even if it technically is a server of some description
Show threadAdam Jacobs 🇺🇦Sep 17, 2024
@MartyFouts But one thing that the replies to my original toot have taught me is that defining what a server is is far from simple!
Show threadMarty FoutsSep 17, 2024

@statsguy It’s context sensitive. In IT context it usually refers to a piece of hardware dedicated to running software services, like a name server; but in software development it usually refers to a piece of software provided a service, like a name server. 😉

Someone else already gave a good definition for software that I paraphrase: “listener for and responder to requests.” A hardware server is then any device that runs a software server and IT context is a dedicated server.