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‎servers.html‎

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<h1>Servers</h1>
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<p>There are four options for setting up infrastructure to serve a
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web application:</p>
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<p>Servers provide the physical infrastructure to run all the software,
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including your web application, that responds to web requests.</p>
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<h2>Why are servers necessary?</h2>
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<p>Your web application must live somewhere other than your own desktop or
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laptop. Servers should ideally be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
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with no unplanned downtime. The servers that host your web application for
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actual users (as opposed to test users) are known as <em>production</em> servers.
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Production servers hold real data (again as opposed to test data) and must be
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secure against unauthorized access.</p>
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<h2>Server hosting options</h2>
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<p>There are four options for hosting a web application:</p>
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<p>"Bare metal" servers</p>

‎source/content/pages/02-servers/0201-servers.markdown‎

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# Servers
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There are four options for setting up infrastructure to serve a
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web application:
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Servers provide the physical infrastructure to run all the software,
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including your web application, that responds to web requests.
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## Why are servers necessary?
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Your web application must live somewhere other than your own desktop or
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laptop. Servers should ideally be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
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with no unplanned downtime. The servers that host your web application for
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actual users (as opposed to test users) are known as *production* servers.
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Production servers hold real data (again as opposed to test data) and must be
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secure against unauthorized access.
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## Server hosting options
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There are four options for hosting a web application:
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1. "Bare metal" servers
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