When you look at any web site, your actually viewing files stored on a Server, a much faster and more powerful computer than your average home PC. A web site is a collection of files like the ones you have on your own computer. In order to make your files accessible to other people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the Internet, the files that make up your web site must be placed on a Server computer hard drive which is constantly connected to the Internet.