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Internet Basics: A Server Is Like A Chef
ThatÂ's what a server is like.
A server is really just a computer thatÂ's been set up to deliver its contents over the Internet to the people that come its way. For example, if you want to go to the website mywebsite.com, the individual webpages that make up that website are saved as files on a computer somewhere. That computer is a server. So you type mywebsite.com into your browser, and what happens? The mywebsite.com website appears!
True, but some other stuff happened first.
First, when you typed in mywebsite.com, your browser sent out a request over the Internet that found its way to the server where the mywebsite.com files are saved (the unique...
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