What is local hosting?

What does hosting locally mean?

When you call an IP address on your computer, you try to contact another computer on the internet but when you call the IP address 127.0. 0.1 then you are communicating with the local host. Localhost is always your own computer. Your computer is talking to itself when you call the local host.

What is my local host server?

By default, this IP address references a server running on the current device. In other words, when your computer requests the IP address 127.0. 0.1, it's making a request to itself, its "local host." The term “localhost” also serves as the domain name for the loopback IP address 127.0.