Terms starting with S

8 terms in Servers

  • SAN

    Servers › Server storage

    A SAN, or storage area network, is a dedicated network that gives servers block-level access to shared storage arrays as if they…

  • Server

    Servers › Server fundamentals

    A server is a computer or program that provides services, data or resources to client devices over a network, usually running continuously…

  • Server provisioning

    Servers › Server fundamentals

    Server provisioning is the process of preparing a server with hardware or virtual resources, an operating system, network settings and software for…

  • Shared hosting

    Servers › Hosting

    Shared hosting is a hosting model in which many customer accounts run on one server and share its CPU, memory, storage, IP…

  • Snapshot

    Servers › Backup & recovery

    A snapshot in server backup and recovery is a point-in-time image of a volume or file system that allows fast rollback but…

  • Supervisord

    Servers › Services & processes

    Supervisord is a Python-based process supervisor for Unix-like servers that starts, monitors and automatically restarts long-running programs.

  • Swap

    Servers › Server resources

    Swap is disk space a server uses as overflow for RAM, letting the kernel move idle memory pages out so active processes…

  • Syslog

    Servers › Monitoring & logs

    Syslog is the standard protocol and message format servers and network devices use to send log events, tagged by facility and severity,…