Building Your Own Website from the Ground Up What is a Website?
- A website consists of one or more "pages" that may be accessed
by a web browser. - A web browser is a piece of software that
runs on your local computer but shows content from a website
hosted on a web server. - A web server is a computer located at
a particular address on the internet that is configured to
respond to requests from web browsers and provide "pages" of
content. - A web server consists of hardware that provides data
storage, connection to the internet, and computing power
(Central Processing Unit [CPU] cycles plus RAM). - Most web
servers are "virtual machines." They share hard disks, internet
connections, CPU cycles, and RAM with many other websites. The
real hardware is split up into pieces of the hard disk, CPU
time, and memory so that websites take turns using the system
resources. - The two most popular flavors of web server
operating systems are linux and Windows Server. - The Apache
HTTP Server is one of the most popular pi