Servers vs Desktops Flashcards
Two primary ways that servers run service programs
using a specialized Butler application
as a background process, always running, listening for requests
servers do not run service programs
as a process, spawned by a parent program that listens for requests
as a background process, always running, listening for requests
as a process, spawned by a parent program that listens for requests
What is a deamon?
the evil person that invented Linux
affectionate name in the Linux community for Bill Gates
a Linux service that runs sporadically as a background process
a Linux service that runs continuously as a background process
a Linux service that runs continuously as a background process
Linux daemons often end with
a splish and a splash
“.daemon”
the letter d (ie mysqld)
nothing special
the letter “d” (ie mysqld)
Six major service types of servers
Compute servers
File servers
Memory servers
Database servers
Mail servers
Network resource servers
Bus servers
Web servers
Print servers
File servers
Database servers
Network resource servers
Mail servers
Web servers
Print servers
The most two common ports for web servers to listen on:
Port Fort Knox
Port 200
Port 80
Port 443
Port 80
Port 443
Three major web servers available on Linux
WebServer
Apache
Triton
Lighttpd
nginX
Apache
Lightpd
nginX
what type of files are used by Apache web server for it’s configuration
.apache
.server.
.htaccess
.linuxapache
.htaccess
Apache Initial Release date
2000
1995
1990
1985
1995
First web server to serve more than 100 million websites - 2009
IIS
nginX
LIghttpd
Apache
Apache
as of 2021, about how many web servers running Apache
313 million
131 million
2
1 billion
313 million
tow linux web servers released under the terms of the FreeBSD license
Apache
IIS
NginX
Lighttpd
NginX and lighttpd
NginX web server is owned by who:
Fedora
IBM
F5
Microsoft
F5
F5 owns which linux web server
apache
nginx
lighttpd
iis
nginx
The initial release of nginx was in what year
1995
1971
2000
2004
2004
which linux web server’s modular event-driver architecture can provide predicatable performance under high loads (build time)
IIS
apache
Nginx
lighttpd
nginx