Deploying and Optimizing Websites

This module covers how to deploy and host a website on different types of hosting platforms, from traditional shared hosting to Platform-as-a-Service cloud offerings.

The World Wide Web and the Internet are often used interchangeably, but they are different things. The World Wide Web (the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly mechanisms such as web browsers. It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed according to the rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

In short: the Web runs on top of the infrastructure provided by the Internet, and it uses HTTP as its sharing protocol. Documents and media are made available through web servers and accessed through web browsers (the client software). Servers and resources on the Web are identified and located through Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).