What's the difference between a website and a service?

A website is your front end — built from GitHub and served as static or server-rendered pages from a global CDN, publicly accessible. A service is your back end — a containerized app behind Forte's gateway, which enforces user authentication and records per-request logs and metrics.

Websites bypass the gateway entirely, even server-rendered ones, so anything that needs auth enforcement or request observability belongs in a service your website calls from the browser.

Read more about this in the documentation

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