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A '''server box''' is a computer that exists only to run [[server software]]. | A '''server box''' is a dedicated [[high bandwidth box]] - a computer that exists only to run [[server software]]. | ||
[[Host]] would be a better term, but it's overloaded in ways that are useful sometimes, confusing at other times. | [[Host]] would be a better term, but it's overloaded in ways that are useful sometimes, confusing at other times. | ||
So there is actually no correct term for this that means only this other than perhaps [[switch]] which implies dedicated hardware used in a phone network - which eventually is where all such server box functions will likely be located, that aren't distributed everywhere via a [[Consumerium protocol]]. | So there is actually no correct term for this that means only this other than perhaps [[switch]] which implies dedicated hardware used in a phone network - which eventually is where all such server box functions will likely be located, that aren't distributed everywhere via a [[Consumerium protocol]]. | ||