How does the web work?

While you use the internet and web every day, you may not have ever stopped to consider how all of it works. When managing your website, there are lots of components and systems working together to keep your site working. Understanding how all these work together allows you to make changes to improve your site as well as better communicate with the developers that you may get support from.

In this talk, we will be exploring:

  • What exactly is the internet?
  • How do servers and hosting work?
  • How do domains work?
  • How do browsers work?
  • How does the page cycle work?
  • What do all the acronyms you encounter (such as FTP, DNS, JS, and more) mean?
  • How does all this make your WordPress site work?

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