What is the Back End?
This lesson gives an overview of where your website will finally live: web servers.
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 ...