Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Digital Literacy How the Web Works The World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and URLs

Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points
Posted by Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points

If servers use numbers to find things then do websites have IP Addresses?

I was wondering because Joy said servers find sites using numbers than do all websites have one?

Joshua Paulson
Joshua Paulson
37,085 Points
Joshua Paulson
Joshua Paulson
37,085 Points

Hmmm... Good question, technically yes. But not all websites have a unique IP address.

1 Answer

Andrew Sena
Andrew Sena
7,851 Points
Andrew Sena
Andrew Sena
7,851 Points

The IP address is the server that your websites files are stored on, so a site can share the same IP address as another if it shares the same server.

Joshua Paulson
Joshua Paulson
37,085 Points
Joshua Paulson
Joshua Paulson
37,085 Points

So, the IP address itself is a number assigned to your computer or device. It was designed for communication in Internet Protocol, and serves two main purposes: host or network i.d. and location.

Like Andrew said, the IP address of the site depends upon the server so if you were to backtrack that IP you might be able to see what other sites are hosted on said web server.

You may have difficulties finding that info if the individual is using a Private Network (VPN).