#Hosting

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

Static website hosting

• Static websites are ones that are fixed and display the same content for every user, usually written exclusively in HTML
• Static web pages can contain client-side technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• They cannot contain dynamic content such as server-side scripts like PHP.

Deployment on Heroku

• Heroku is a Platform as a service(PaaS)
• Which abstracts us from dealing with servers, all we have to do is sign up,
• Download a few tools and then upload our code to the platform effortlessly

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.

Google Search Console

• Intro to Google Search Console
  • It helps to find SEO performance of the website
  • i.e performance of the website in google search results
  • Monitor: google crawl, index and discovers pages