What Is A Server

For those of you who don’t really understand where or how your web page is sitting on your hosting sever, this is a basic over view of how it works. A server is basically hardware and software and protocol. We will go over these three basics of your hosting server.

• Server hardware. Server hardware is so similar to your old PC hardware that the price of server hardware has come down considerably. Down enough that it’s tempting for a lot of us to host our own server. But that’s a whole different article. All a server is: • Very fast processor. • A large amount of RAM. • A vast amount of Disk Space. • Connection to a T1 line (access to the outside world). The hardware is housed in very large office buildings. There are many racks of servers filling these climate controlled rooms. Most of the server host brag of their 99 better uptime. This is very impressive and another reason to use a server host. How often have you re-booted your PC in the past?