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Summary
Servers are the most under-appreciated part of the modern internet. Almost no one doubts they matter. What goes unseen is the care it takes to keep one running. For server month at Automox, host Jason Kikta traces the form-factor journey from the roughly 50-pound Novell NetWare tower to 1U and 2U rack systems, virtualization, and the cloud. Along the way, "what is a server" became almost a philosophical question. Linux won the server space because its free price and Unix-like, tunable design fit how teams stood up cloud infrastructure. Servers demand more discipline than workstations because of reach. An offline laptop affects one person. An offline server can take thousands of people down, as any DNS outage shows.
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