Chapter 5. Deploying web applications and services

Designing and building your application are often perceived as the most important aspects of software development. However, after you have built your application, you have to deploy it to a production environment in which it can actually be used by your users.

When deploying your application, you face a wide range of possibilities. One important decision is where to run your application. You can choose to deploy your application or service to a private environment, in which you have your own servers; or you can choose to deploy it to Windows Azure, in which the cloud infrastructure that Microsoft provides will host your application.

But just choosing where to run your application is not the only ...

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