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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]].
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