Hosting your GeoServer instance and app

In this section, you'll learn about the three main options for GeoServer hosts; hosting on-premises, cloud-based virtual machines, and containerized virtualization. For each of these options, you'll learn the advantages and disadvantages and the basic steps involved in deployment. In some ways, the most straightforward method for hosting is with the server at your physical location: on-premises hosting. It is possible to host directly on the same machine you used to do development using a server that is dedicated to hosting web resources, or to use a virtual machine that is created on a local data center; for instance, if your organization has a VMware data center cluster. With a virtual machine, you can start small, do benchmarking, and scale up if needed. A physical server does not afford such flexibility, so you should exceed...