Application Server
Also called an appserver, an application server is a program that handles all application operations between users and an organization’s backend business applications or databases.
An application server is typically used for complex transaction-based applications. To support high-end needs, an application server has to have built-in redundancy, monitor for high-availability, high-performance distributed application services and support for complex database access.
See the Server Types page in the quick reference section of
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