CHAPTER 18

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Publishing Your Site to a Production Linux Box

Let’s imagine you’ve set up your site locally and it’s running great. But now you would like to move your site to a production box in the cloud at Amazon, Rackspace, Linode, Digital Ocean, or any number of other cloud-hosting providers. These vendors will, out in cyberspace (out in the cloud), set up a Linux box for you on which to run your web site. Often to really follow best practices you’ll set up at least two Linux boxes and a load balancer to balance traffic between the two (or more) Linux boxes. This setup will also give you redundancy in case one of the Linux servers has any problems. ...

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