{"id":6976,"date":"2021-06-05T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2021-06-05T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:15:49","slug":"web-farm-web-server-farm-what-are-these-a-simple-tech-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/web-farm-web-server-farm-what-are-these-a-simple-tech-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Web farm, Web server farm-what are these? A simple tech explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A server farm is a group of computers acting as\u00a0servers and housed together in a single location. A server farm is sometimes called a server\u00a0<em>cluster<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/TechTarget-Contributor\">TechTarget Contributor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Web server farm can be either (1) a Web site that has more than one server, or (2) an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides Web hosting services using multiple servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a business network, a server farm or cluster might perform such services as providing centralized access control, file access, printer sharing, and backup for workstation users. The servers may have individual operating systems or a shared operating system and may also be set up to provide load balancing when there are many server requests. In a server farm, if one server fails, another can act as backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On the Internet, a Web server farm, or simply\u00a0<em>Web farm<\/em>, may refer to a Web site that uses two or more servers to handle user requests. Typically, serving user requests for the files (pages) of a Web site can be handled by a single server. However, larger Web sites may require multiple servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Web farm is a term that is also simply used to mean a business that performs Web site hosting on multiple servers. Some Web farms allow you to put your own server on their site, a service known as\u00a0colocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A server farm is a group of computers acting as\u00a0servers and housed together in a single location. A server farm is sometimes called a server\u00a0cluster.\u00a0 By TechTarget Contributor A Web server farm can be either (1) a Web site that has more than one server, or (2) an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides Web hosting services using multiple servers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/web-farm-web-server-farm-what-are-these-a-simple-tech-explanation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,38,35,8,4,30,3,9,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batting-for-tech-in-the-covid-19-times","category-best-practices-for-data-center-operations","category-data-center-facilities","category-data-center-hardware","category-datacenter-news","category-expert-advise-and-opinion","category-industry-news-and-expert-advise","category-tech-definitions","category-technical-explanations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6977,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}