I started to learn some cybersecurity and pentesting from TCM and HTB ACADEMY and they teach how to host a server but I don’t understand why doing that? what’s the point of hosting a web server in the field of cybersecurity and why they teach me that?

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well a web server is a pen-testable thing, and is also a very common pen-tested thing so the background knowledge is useful .

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