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Originally Posted by Aliantha
When you look at a webpage (like this one for example) you use your terminal to connect to your server. Then you type in a web address, and your server looks for it and finds it on whichever server it's on. The information that you look at on this page is stored on someone's server, and the person that owns the site pays the server for the space. You just get to look at it.  If you had your own webspace, it would be stored on a server which is paid for somehow, either by you directly, or the space owners (such as geocities) might choose to use advertising to make their money, so that means that they're giving you space for free, but you're advertising their site which puts things like pop-ups etc (which someone has paid geocities to use) on your page. |
When you make such a request, your pc gets the page from SOME server, not always the one hosting the original of the page. Two major technologies, still in widespread use that don't conform to your description are proxy servers (especially for content) and mirror servers, which are explicitly not the same server as the one that holds the original information, but holds a perfect copy (in a perfect world).