Web Applications, Server, Server Farm

Web Applications, Server, Server Farm

A web application is the logical component:

• It has a Host Header (URL), e.g. http://intranet.
• It stores data inside one or more associated content databases.

A web application can have several site collections all accessed by a host header:

Web Server

A web server is a server where a set of services are running to publish web sites to the internet or intranet. Of course a web server can publish more than one web site:

Multiple SharePoint servers are grouped to a SharePoint server farm.

Server Farm

While the front-end web server publishes information to the Internet or Intranet the database server is required to store configuration data and content.

A server farm can have multiple front-end and database servers.