What are dedicated servers?
I seriously have no idea what dedicated servers are and when I heard those words confusion struck me. So I looked into it further. Dedicated servers are types of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. Dedicated servers are often housed in data centers and the server hardware is often owned by the provider.
Wow that is a mouthful. So what does it really mean? I looked at a website http://www.alentus.com/dedicated-hosting/server/starter-servers.asp and it helped to explain it a little more. The website also offered several packages and pricing for their product. I have always wondered where things like this came from and how people come up with the ideas, like dedicated servers or the internet. Thank God someone came up with the internet because I don't know what I would do without it, but really how you think of something like that. Something my friends always laugh at me about it the fact that I can't understand how people named things. Like fork, why would someone name it fork? Obviously now we look at forks and we can't think of anything else that it should be named because that is what we know already, but if you were to invent something what would you name it? I always kid one of my friends saying that he needs to invent something so I can name it something cool. I don't care what the invention is (although it would be nice to make a little money by inventing something big, like post –its) but I just want to name it something fun and be able to say that I named something.
It just amazes me how people come up with computers or the internet or television or even how things work. My friend is studying abroad and I talk to her online a few times a month. It just drives me crazy thinking about how the internet can connect me with Kelly in Spain. I guess I am easily amused by things, but I really am amazed by how things are invented and named and put together and how they work. What really gets me going is how phones work (and my friends all roll their eyes when I bring it up). But it is crazy how you can dial a number and it connects you to someone hundreds of miles away. I am so thankful for these inventions though even though I can't understand them, I can't imagine my life any other way.