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.