The goal of writing any piece of software is to successfully deploy and run it in a production environment for use. Applications can run in different environments that are used for specific purposes, like developer integration testing, user acceptance testing, and, of course, production. Each environment provides an isolated host where applications can run.
The term hosting refers to the mechanism that provides access for the application to the end-user; hosts are typically configured on an application server in a specific environment. Deployment is the process of ...
