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What is the difference between service and server?

It seems that both service and server refer to some web based application. But is there any precise definition of the two terms?

Solution

  • A server offers one or more services. Server is also a more technical term, whereas service is more a term off the problem domain.

    You also need to distinguish between:

    • Server as hardware (see post from Dan D)
    • Server as software (eg. Apache HTTP server)

    You can find more elaborate definiton on Wikipedia: