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An Introduction To Web Servers

Added by David Coleman on 22 August 2010
A web server is just a computer with a fast Internet connection that stores and sends out website pages. There are hundreds of thousands of web servers that make up the Internet but you’d never know they’re there! When you type in an Internet address, such as www.offsight.co.uk , the web server that the website pages are saved on sends the files to you to see. Any computer connected to the internet can be used as a web server, but usually people mean a specially built computer with a very fast internet connection.