The evolution of server farms
A server is computer hardware, software, or device that offers assistance to another computing unit, a client, by providing information or computing resources. When hundreds and thousands of such servers are connected via network switches and routers within the same physical location, they compose a cluster also known as a server farm. A server farm is intended to provide excess processing power and storage capacity for machines and applications which need extensive computing resources. Web Servers In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee started a project to develop a technology that will be able to render information-sharing services. Later that year, CERN HTTPd was developed on a NeXT computer, becoming the world's first-ever web server. In 1991, the first-ever Web server was launched at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center…