Associating a domain name with Docker-based cloud hosting

Let's start by deploying our Notes application to cloud hosting as we did in Chapter 10, Deploying Node.js Applications, but with a few changes. 

One change is to use a real domain name this time. This requires going to a domain name registrar such as pairdomains.com to register a domain. Some web-hosting providers also offer domain name registration, however it's generally better if your domain name is registered separately from the hosting provider. Go ahead and register a domain. fooblebartz.com seems to be available, for example.

The next step is to associate the domain name with a virtual server to which we can deploy Docker containers. Again, we'll turn to DigitalOcean as an ...

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