Online course
Servers, the Web and Open Source
How the Internet works under the hood, what a server really is and why open source software runs the Web. A course for understanding the technology you work with, no coding required.
View the course See the syllabus
- 5 hours, online and at your own pace
- Basic level: no coding skills needed
- 3 interactive exercises
- An exam with explained answers after each block
About the course
Stop nodding along. Start understanding.
You work on the Internet all day, yet hardly anyone can explain what happens between typing an address and seeing the page. That gap is expensive: poor buying decisions, dead-end conversations with the technical team and total dependence on whoever does understand.
Four blocks cover the pieces behind every digital service: how information travels, how the Web works, what a server is and what open source means.
You come away able to read a hosting quote, make sense of an incident and ask the right questions.
Who it's for
Who is this course for?
Profile
Non-technical professionals who work alongside technology teams: senior management, project management, marketing, administration or procurement.
New to tech?
It also suits you if you are starting out in a technical role and want a solid, ordered foundation before you specialize.
Where you are today
You decide, budget or deal with whoever builds your website without knowing its infrastructure. Here, every term is explained the first time it appears.
Learning outcomes
By the end you will be able to
Trace a web request
Explain the full journey of a web request, from the browser to the server and back.
Know what you are buying
Tell domain, DNS, hosting and server apart, and know what you are paying for in each case.
Recognize ports and protocols
Understand what a port and a protocol are, and recognize the most common ones.
Compare physical, virtual and cloud
Compare physical, virtual and cloud servers on cost, control and risk.
Tell open licenses apart
Distinguish the main open source licenses and the obligations each one carries.
Syllabus
The full syllabus
Four blocks and eight lessons: from the journey of a request to open source licenses.
How the Internet works
Who talks to whom, and how a request gets from your browser to the server: IP, DNS and ports.
The Web: domains, hosting and HTTP
What a website needs to exist and be seen: a domain, DNS records, hosting, HTTP and HTTPS encryption.
Servers: from bare metal to the cloud
Inside a server: Linux, SSH, physical, virtual or cloud machines, and the bare minimum on backups and protection.
Open Source: free software and its licenses
What licenses allow and require, how a community works and how publishers make a living. Example: Odoo.
Learning by doing
Try it: this is a course exercise
Match each service to its port: web, email, SSH, DNS. Then decide which ports to leave open on three servers. It is one of the course's three exercises, in Spanish, and you can try it right here without signing up.
Methodology
How the course is taught
Format
Online and at your own pace, in The Singular Academy's Virtual Classroom, in Spanish. No dates, no timetable: you progress when you can.
Approach
Short lessons, everyday analogies and no needless jargon. Each block ends with a six-question exam, every answer explained.
Three interactive exercises
They make the invisible visible: the journey of a request, the ports and services game and the license picker.
Who wrote it
Practicing consultants from Singular Beacon.
Requirements
You do not need to know how to code, or to have ever managed a system.
Why The Singular Academy?
Practicing professionals
Content written by people who solve these cases in their day job.
A structured approach
A progressive methodology designed to consolidate concepts in the right order.
Learning by doing
Interactive exercises and an exam with explained answers in every block.
Backed by Singular Beacon
A consultancy specializing in digitalization and data strategy.
Key facts
Practical information
- Duration5 hours
- FormatOnline, at your own pace
- LanguageSpanish
- LevelBasic, no coding needed
- Contents4 blocks · 8 lessons · 3 interactive exercises · 4 exams with explained answers
- WhereThe Singular Academy's Virtual Classroom
Pricing and access
Request your access
The course is in the catalog and its welcome lesson is open to everyone. The rest is unlocked when The Singular Academy grants you access: request it from the Virtual Classroom or through the contact form.
Course access
- Four blocks, at your own pace
- Three interactive exercises
- An exam with explained answers in every block
- Access from the Virtual Classroom
The Singular ecosystem
The course's example, in your company
Singular Beacon · Odoo
Odoo is the open source ERP the course uses as its example. Singular Beacon, the consultancy that wrote this content, implements it.
Understand the technology you work with
Head to the Virtual Classroom, watch the welcome lesson, which is open to everyone, and request access to the course.