Gain insights into web deployment, explore essential steps for going live, discover tools, security measures, SEO techniques, and deploy a sample site using Google Cloud Platform.

We can find a plethora of content on the internet related to web development in many different languages. However, what are we supposed to do once our web application has been created? The next step is to make it live on the world wide web. This course takes us deep into the world of web deployment, specifying all the necessary steps needed to make our website available to users. 

Learn about the different tools, security measures and deployment platforms available to us in the modern era. This comprehensive guide also teaches us about important web concepts such as Search Engine Optimization and server maintenance. Furthermore, for your ease, we'll be deploying a sample website using the Google Cloud Platform! So get your web applications ready because they are about to go live.

A Complete Guide to Launching Your Website: From Local to Live

So far, we've been familiarized with GCP and some of its feature. However, there are several other popular cloud platforms as well, each with its own flavor of functionality. 

**Amazon Web Services** (AWS) and **Heroku** are giants in the field of cloud hosting. In this lesson, we will compare GCP, AWS and Heroku to decide which one is the best fit for us.

| **Features** | **AWS** | **Heroku** | **GCP** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Deployment** | Requires some technical knowledge about server configuration. | Does everything at the backend. We do not need to worry about maintenance. | Requires some technical knowledge about server configuration. |
| **Control** | Offers the widest range of features. | Isn't very flexible as it handles everything for us. | There is a huge growing library of dev tools. |
| **Learning Curve** | High | Low | High |
| **Pricing** | Fairly low. Pay for what you need. | Very expensive | Very economical. A great free plan as well. |
| **Scalability** | High | High and simple | High
| **Speed** | Usually efficient, but does slow down in high traffic. | Can slow down in high traffic. | Fairly reliable speed, but this is also a result of GCP having less users than AWS and Heroku. |

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That is all we need to know about safe and secure website deployment. We’ve learned all the basic steps needed to run a persistent application. The next section will explain how to maintain our website and server so that we don’t face a degradation in services.

This lesson will highlight the similarities and differences between AWS, GCP and Heroku.

Introduction

Going Live

Domain Name

Web Hosting

Publish Your Website

Testing & Maintenance

Post Launch Checklist

Where to go from here

Comparing Different Cloud Hosts