Client-Server Network TL;DR Takeaway
Have you ever wondered how web browsers can access web pages from different websites? Or how email clients send and receive messages from different email servers? That’s all thanks to Client-server networks.
The Client-server network is one of the most popular and widely used network models in the world.
It enables many users to share and access resources and applications on the network.
It also provides security, scalability, and reliability for the network.
Want to know more about it? Then keep reading, because we’ll answer further questions.
A Client-server network is a network model that partitions the tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and the requesters of a resource or service, called clients.
Clients and servers can be separate hardware devices or software programs.
Clients and servers do also communicate over a network using a common protocol.
A protocol is a set of rules and formats that define how data is exchanged between devices or programs.
For example, HTTP is a protocol that defines how web browsers and web servers communicate.
Clients initiate communication sessions with servers, which wait for incoming requests.
Clients send requests to servers, and servers send responses back to clients.
This exchange of messages is an example of a request-response communication pattern.
For example, when you type a web address in your browser, your browser sends a request to the web server that hosts the website, and the web server sends back the web page as a response.
Clients and servers can perform different functions depending on the type of service they provide or request. Some of the common types of client-server services are:
Client-server network has many advantages and disadvantages compared to other network models.
For example, it provides better Security, Scalability, and Reliability than other network models because servers can actually access resources and applications on the network, as well as handle multiple requests from multiple clients, and backup data to recover from failures. But it also has disadvantages, such as:
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