Deployment & Environments
Domain
What It Is
A human-readable address for your website
Analogy
Your restaurant's street address — easier to remember than GPS coordinates
Try It Out
Domain to Server
Connections:
user → dns (myapp.com)dns → server (IP address)
Related Terms in Deployment & Environments
Localhost
A restaurant that only you can eat at — it's fully functional but not open to the public
Development Environment
Your test kitchen — you can make mistakes, experiment, and no customers will see
Staging Environment
A dress rehearsal — everything is real except the audience
Production Environment
The restaurant is open — real customers, real orders, real consequences