When you enter a Website address in your browser or click on a link, a lot goes on behind the scenes to get you the information you're looking for. Here's a brief overview of the process of viewing a Web page.
When you view a Website, your browser first needs to find the Web server that it will download the information from. It checks with the domain name registration company (e.g. GoDaddy, Network Solutions, etc.) and Domain Name Service (DNS) to get the IP address of the site's Web server. If you are using Simplimation to host your Website, this will be the IP address of our Web server.
Once your browser knows the IP address of the site's Web server, it requests the page directly from the Web server. The page may contain links to additional files that it needs in order to display and work properly (e.g. images, stylesheets, Javascript). Your browser requests each of these files from the Web server also and shows the page.
