Hi!
My name is Natalie and I'm one of the people you talk to you when you call us
here at bluehost.
Nowadays most of us use the Internet
all the time, but lots of us still don't really know how it work
well knowing how web sites work makes getting online a lot easier
so in that video we go over the basic of
what web sites are made up where web sites are stored
and how websites get from where they are to your computer
so first off websites are really not that complicated
It's true good website can take a lot of time
money and talent to create but at the end of the day
everywhere website out there is just a bunch of files
just like you have on your computer at home.
Websites are made of content like pictures graphic
music, movies, text and so on, but there's one part that
unique all website include computer code
written in a programming language called HTML
if you aren't familiar with programing
this code may not look pretty but the web browser on your computer
loves it. See your browser is designed to use this
code to stick all those files together into a website
you can see on your screen. So think of these files
as pieces of a puzzle and think of the code like instruction on how to talk
Now all these files and the code
need a place to be stored. After all just like music
or pictures on your computer at home website files
take up space. Well that where this comes in.
This is a webhosting server. Well it's an old one anyway that we use to use
here at bluehost. It may not look like it but servers
servers like these are just super powerful computer
they look a little different than what most of us have at home
there's no mouse or keyboard and there's no display
but that because these computers have just one
purpose and that is to serve as a place for websites
to be stored and accessed. So these computers are called servers
not so much because of what they are but more because of what they do
serve data. They just have a lot of extra hard drive
and processing and take a lot more power to run and they're flat
That's so we can stack them. Here at bluehost we have more than
one thousand of these in our data center.
Now lastly, how do a website stored on these servers
get to your computer at home. Well when you look up a website
you open up a browser type in the website or domain name
and press enter, right? Well after that behind the scenes your computer
goes online
to find the server where that particular website is stored
by using whats called the domain name system or DNS.
See a server just like a building has an address
The DNS maintains a list of which website are on
which servers than tells your computer where they are
So think of a DNS as like a phone book for websites
Once your computer finds the server. It connects,
gets the files and HTML code
and then your browser puts it altogether into a website that you can
and use. So that's it I hope this helps explain a little bit about how website
work. This was just a very basic over
so if you want to learn more don't worry we're doing
several more in depth videos soon. Just make sure to follow us
so you don't miss them.