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Where does your site live when your laptop is closed?
A site that vanishes whenever you close your laptop is no use to visitors. A is a company whose computers store a copy of your site and send it to anyone who opens its address, day and night. Visitors reach the host's copy, so your laptop can be closed, asleep, or offline.
This course uses as the host. Each time Vercel publishes a version of your site, that published version is a . The deployment visitors get at your site's usual address is called . Vercel's free Hobby plan covers personal, non-commercial sites.
Practice
Not answeredYour site is on , and your laptop is switched off for a week. What happens when someone opens the site's address?