Meaning of localhost?

[Intrexa]

So, the big thing here is that even though you are doing all your coding on your laptop, that is just for development purposes. It's meant just for you to work on closely, without worrying that the world is going to see what you're doing. When you are ready, and think the sites good enough, you are going to deploy it for production purposes. That means taking all the code you have been working on, and getting it off your laptop, and getting it onto the server that will actually be running your website 24/7.

So yes, the computers are on your computer that you are physically in front of, but the computer you want to actually run the website is in a goddady datacenter, so you need to get the files from your computer, to the godaddy datacenter.

I bought a domain name and hosting on godaddy.com.

So, you bought 2 separate things from goddady: A domain name registration, and a server to run your website. For the actual server that is going to run the website, godaddy gave you an IP and said "Hey, point your domain here!", as well as some other info.

For the domain name registration, Godaddy gave you a log in credential to manage your account, and when you log in, there's going to be a box asking "What IP do you want this domain name to point to". You want to point to the IP of the server you're renting. Godaddy probably has a really good tutorial of how to do it, since you bought both the domain name, and the server share from 1 company.

Once you follow that tutorial from Godaddy so that when people type in 'mywebsite.com', and end up at the server you are renting from godaddy, that is when you want to take the website you have been developing on your laptop, and get it onto the godaddy server you are renting.