{"id":1550,"date":"2022-04-12T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:03:27","slug":"what-is-an-ip-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/what-is-an-ip-address\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an IP address?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" class=\"wp-image-1551\" style=\"width: 526px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/267481723_4970238986343243_5742100526519333033_n.jpg\" alt=\"What is an IP address?\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/267481723_4970238986343243_5742100526519333033_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/267481723_4970238986343243_5742100526519333033_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/267481723_4970238986343243_5742100526519333033_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spy with my little eye&#8230; <br>A string of numbers and dots&#8230; <br>It might be an IP address! <br>But what is it and why is it useful? <br><br>IP address is short for Internet Protocol address. <br>It&#8217;s a string of numbers that identifies a computer or server.<br>Computers and servers use IP addresses to connect to one another. <br>This is an essential part of how the internet works!<br>There are many reasons why you should know your computer&#8217;s and server&#8217;s IP addresses. <br>For example, you need to know the IP address of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/what-is-an-ip-address\/\"> server hosting<\/a> your website to be able to tie your domain to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#WebHosting #ServerLife<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spy with my little eye&#8230; A string of numbers and dots&#8230; It might be an IP address! But what is it and why is it useful? IP address is short for Internet Protocol address. It&#8217;s a string of numbers that identifies a computer or server.Computers and servers use IP addresses to connect to one &#8230; <a title=\"What is an IP address?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/what-is-an-ip-address\/\" aria-label=\"More on What is an IP address?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostwebis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}