Many public servers around the world operate mirrors of Prefix WhoIs, making the information generally available worldwide.
For example World-Wide-Web servers operate on port 80, and email relay servers usually listen on port 25.
Environmental sensors are being used in data centers to monitor the conditions in which servers and other network equipment operates.
Most MPP architectures implement a "shared-nothing architecture" where each server operates self-sufficiently and controls its own memory and disk.
Typically, an individual server will only operate at around 18% of its capacity.
Their servers operate from abroad, one of them has been closed after an US-Poland police operation.
X's design requires the clients and server to operate separately, and device independence and the separation of client and server incur overhead.
In server virtualization, multiple "virtual" servers operate on a single platform using hypervisor technology.
In a smaller setup there just isn't a lot of tolerance when a virtualized setup goes down, even if the other servers aren't operating at peak.
Since it requires no servers to operate, the service can operate as long as at least two users have the necessary hardware and software, as well as a phone line.