Chapter 6Deployment and Hosting
Now that version control is out of the way, it's time to look into deployment and hosting.
Deployment, as you may have learned from previous chapters, refers to the act of putting your locally developed application online for people to use. A deployed application doesn't necessarily mean a publicly available one―it can be an intranet application that is internal to a company, for example; it means it can be used by its target audience.
An application, however, cannot be deployed without being hosted; there needs to be a server computer that is its home. In this chapter, we'll talk about both terms in more detail and list some approaches to each. We'll also cover the pros and cons of common approaches and define ...
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