The upshot of a server is: it sits on your network and you can access its files as if they were a drive on your own system. There’s a lot you can do beyond that, but the core value of a server is: files on the server are available to all computers on the network. It makes more intuitive sense when you have multiple desktop computers to share the files between, but even if you only have/use one desktop, the server still makes a lot of sense in terms of keeping your files insulated from problems that happen to your desktop system.
And “server” conjures visions of a big room with a special air conditioning system and raised floor for the cables. In today’s reality, a 4TB server can be the size of a pack of playing cards.
The upshot of a server is: it sits on your network and you can access its files as if they were a drive on your own system. There’s a lot you can do beyond that, but the core value of a server is: files on the server are available to all computers on the network. It makes more intuitive sense when you have multiple desktop computers to share the files between, but even if you only have/use one desktop, the server still makes a lot of sense in terms of keeping your files insulated from problems that happen to your desktop system.
And “server” conjures visions of a big room with a special air conditioning system and raised floor for the cables. In today’s reality, a 4TB server can be the size of a pack of playing cards.