The phrase "alternative server" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to technology, networking, or computing, where one server is used as a substitute for another.
Example: "If the main server goes down, we can switch to the alternative server to ensure continued service."
Alternatives: "backup server" or "substitute server".
As in the first case, the commission said it thought that Microsoft might have withheld crucial information from vendors of alternative server software that would allow their products to communicate better with Microsoft's dominant PC and server software products.
Although it will still be possible for tech firms to create and use alternative server software, ARM expects many will opt for its solution, providing a potentially lucrative new revenue stream on top of the licensing fees it already receives from chip manufacturers that use its designs.
We wrote about MaidSafe's alternative, server-less Internet in 2014.
Thus, providing the underlying data store is organized optimally (as it would need to be with the alternative servers), then similar performance and scalability should be achievable regardless of the DAS server used.
By offering alternative DNS server numbers the company is able to reduce latency substantially.
In order to play formats incompatible with Windows Media Player, you'll need to use an alternative media server such as PS3 Media Server.
Both the Microsoft Web site software and the open-source alternative, the Apache server running on Linux, have had security problems, said Richard M. Smith, a computer security expert.
In order to generate a splicing graph from a set of transcripts for a given gene, we thereby developed the Alternative Splicing Graph Server (ASGS) [ 8].
However, since there is an ambiguity in the selection of the reference transcript, we have further developed this scheme by choosing the most conserved exons as distinct reference exons and all others as variant, creating the Alternative Splicing Graph Server (ASGS) [ 6] for generating splicing graphs.
Important examples include not supporting multi-tier pseudonymity and not providing alternatives to direct server-to-server communication for the synchronization of temporary identifiers.
Content distribution networks have recently been introduced as a more efficient alternative to centralized servers for the delivery of static content as well as media streaming services ranging from TV broadcasts to video on-demand.
