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RQ: Introduction

RQ: Introduction

Explain what is deployment. To make the web application accessible for all users, we need to upload the code of the application, configure it and run it on a separate server. This process of configuring the code on a web or a separate server from where any user can access the web application is called deployment. So after the deployment on the server, we can access the website by entering the IP address or the domain in the URL tab of the browser. Second question, what is the domain name and how does it work? Using the IP address every time is not convenient. And that's why we have the domains and something called DNS. Domains are the unique names that we use to access any website like for example google.com, amazon.com etc. These domain names actually refer to an IP address which is of the server where the application is hosted. So this entire system of assigning names to the IP address is called the domain name system that is DNS. So if the user types the domain into the browser…

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