Can someone explain servers to me?

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to have just discovered Wappler. I’m attempting to see if I can get a handle on the program with no coding experience. Not only that, but my knowledge on how websites function at all is limited.

So here are probably the most basic questions that have ever been asked on this forum: What are servers exactly? Why does it appear that many of Wappler’s features will not work without a server connection? And why can I not simply store the files that Wappler requires from the server locally (on my computers hard drive) while I’m building the application?

I’ve watched all of the tutorial videos and read the relevant documents provided on this topic, but unfortunately I’m missing the basic concepts so it has been difficult to understand.

Any help would be much appreciated!