01-Hosting | Domain info

What/why use domain and DNS records overview

Domains

What Is a Domain?

  • Domain is the name of a website
  • Domain name points to the website server IP so that you don’t have to remember the complicated IP addresses
  • The IP address is the equivalent of this physical address, but for the web.
  • Your home’s address allows people, or your GPS, to find and navigate to your home, while your IP address tells web browsers where to go to display your website.
  • Use ping google.com to find google.com IP
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04-Hosting | Deployment on AWS

Deploy Django app on AWS

Deploy Django app on AWS

Deploy and host a django application on AWS EC2 instance using Nginx as the webserver and Gunicorn as WSGI

Nginx is an open-source web server that, since its success as a web server, is now also used as a reverse proxy , HTTP cache, and load balancer.

WSGI used to forward request from a web server to a python backend.

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