You deploy better than my ex

Deployment is not a term everyone is familiar with; if you were not a web developer until recently, you would have been, probably, unfamiliar with it. In a rough Spartan way, one could define deployment as the act of preparing and presenting your application to the world, assuring the required resources are available, and tuning it, as a configuration suitable for the development phase is not the same as one appropriate for deployment. In a web development context, we are talking about a few very specific actions:

• Placing your code in a server

• Setting up your database

• Setting up your HTTP server

• Setting up other services you may use

• Tying everything together

Placing your code in a server

First of all, what is a server? We refer to as server a computer with server-like features such as high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). These features grant the application running in the server a certain level of trust that the server will keep running, even after...