A cache server

cache, pronounced "cash", I like this server already, is a copy of online internet content, which is kept in the memory of a user's computer. By storing this content on the user's computer, computer applications there can use that data without requesting it from the server. This reduces the load on the server by reducing the number of requests sent to that server. This also makes the applications work faster, because they do not have to wait for the server to respond with new data.


This can sometimes cause problems, if the server has new data but the data in the cache is too old. To avoid this problem, the cache can be refilled with new data from the server. This is called "refreshing the cache". The faster the cache the better the response. Cache server will really do well with lots of memory on it.

A cache server is a server which is used to store a cache of the web pages and send them to the users (clients).


Types of Internet servers

This is going to be series of post on the types of internet servers. Some very cool stuff

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