(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, defines a proxy server as “a server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.” ...

IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol l that lets you sync your email inbox across ...