How does Web hosting work?

Web hosting explained

Web hosting is often seen as a rather mysterious process. Sure, you can create your own website, but how does it actually get out on the Internet? It’s all in the hosting.

When you typically put a website on the Internet, it isn’t being viewed from your computer. Those pages that you see are actually on someone else’s computer, probably far away from you, and maybe even in another country.

You – and everyone else – can see those pages because the computer that they are on is set up as a server. Servers are simply computers configured to display Web pages to viewers throughout the world.

A server serves Web pages to users. Whenever a user requests the address of your website, their Internet browser translates the name (www.e-wisdom.com) into a series of numbers, which it then uses to locate the server that your website is on.

Once that server is found, it is sent a request to view the Webpages. If it is a viewable site, then the server happily responds to the browser and sends it the information about the page. Voila! Your page has just been viewed.