This guide is designed to explain what a Web App or Web Application is and what they are used for. A web application, often referred to as a web app, is an application that is accessed via a web ...

Most computers come with their own web server and, if they don’t, it’s easy to install one. Setting it up can take a bit of work, but it’s well worth it in my opinion. In fact, I don’t consider my ...

There is disagreement in the definition of web applications. Some people think that web applications are all websites, others only those that have an interactive interface and the ability to interact ...

If you've heard or seen the term DNS or DNS server on your computer, you may be wondering what it means, and how it affects ...

Web hosting and domains are both essential to publishing a website. Learn how they work -- and how they work together. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

For those who don’t have much experience in IT or any complex computer technology, you may be thinking a server is exclusively those giant racks of hardware you see in data centers and high-budget ...

Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

It seems there’s a service for everything, but sometimes you simply learn more by doing it yourself. If you haven’t enjoyed the somewhat anachronistic pleasures of running your own server and hosting ...

Portal 2 is mostly known as the successful sequel to Valve’s weird physics platformer, Portal. It’s not really known for being a webserver. That might change, though, given the hard work of ...