Inevitably, you'll want the application you've been building to be online and available to the world, whether you want to host your application online during its development process or when it's complete and ready for production. There are a number of different hosting options currently available for Node.js and MongoDB-based apps, and in this chapter, we'll take a look at deploying to a few different popular services.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Cloud versus traditional web hosting
• An introduction to Git source control
• Deploying an application with Nodejitsu
• Deploying an application with Heroku
• Deploying an application with Amazon Web Services
• Deploying an application with Microsoft Azure
• A brief look at DigitalOcean