What is the Back End?
Explore the fundamentals of back-end web development by understanding servers, web hosting services, and server operating systems like Linux and Windows Server. This lesson helps you grasp how back-end components work together to deliver website functionality and support scalability.
The back end of a website loosely consists of a server, databases, and APIs.
What are web servers?
A web server is a system that delivers content and services to users over the Internet. Web servers are exactly like regular computers except that they are more powerful and robust. Also, most servers don’t have a display like a monitor or a screen that most PCs do, but you can connect to them with SSH. To put it simply, SSH is a way to get another machine’s terminal on your own. A web server can ‘host’ a website, i.e., the webserver will have all the code for the website on it: front and back and anyone with an Internet connection can access it with their machine to view the website.
Technically, you can open up port 80 on your PC and host your website there. However, ...