Chapter 14

Deploying Your Site

What you will learn in this chapter:

• Exploring your hosting options
• Deployment using Web Deploy
• Deployment via FTP
• Common deployment problems

This is a short chapter. In most ASP.NET books, a chapter on deploying your site to a web server so that it can go live usually covers a fair amount of ground. There are a number of things you need to do and options you can choose in terms of how you deploy your site. WebMatrix simplifies the whole process so dramatically that there isn’t much to write about. This is good news for you.

This chapter examines your hosting options and explains the differences among each one. It will cover the small amount of work you need to do to ensure that your site works on the server just as it did on your local machine. You will learn about the built-in tools offered by WebMatrix for locating a suitable hosting company and ensuring that it offers a compatible service. Finally, you will walk through the two deployment options offered by WebMatrix.