What are the characteristics of client/server architecture?

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Advantages of client-server architecture:-


In most cases, client-server architecture enables the roles
and responsibilities of a computing system to be distributed
among several independent computers that are known to each
other only through a network. This creates an additional
advantage to this architecture: greater ease of maintenance.
For example, it is possible to replace, repair, upgrade, or
even relocate a server while its clients remain both unaware
and unaffected by that change. This independence from change
is also referred to as encapsulation.
All the data is stored on the servers, which generally have
far greater security controls than most clients. Servers can
better control access and resources, to guarantee that only
those clients with the appropriate permissions may access
and change data.
Since data storage is centralized, updates to those data are
far easier to administer.
It functions with multiple different clients of different
capabilities.




Disadvantages of client-server architecture :-


Traffic congestion on the network has been an issue since
the inception of the client-server paradigm. As the number
of simultaneous client requests to a given server increases,
the server can become severely overloaded.
The client-server paradigm lacks the robustness. Under
client-server, should a critical server fail, clients’
requests cannot be fulfilled.

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