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WEBSITE PRODUCTION

U S ER A N D S ER V ER S ID E
FA C TO R S

IN TER N ET / W W W .


The sole purpose of the Internet is to be able to surf the web and be able to use its facilities of browsing a website. A global system of interconnected computer networks that uses protocols such as TCIP/IP to link billions of devices around the world was invented by Robert E. Khan and Vinton Gray
Cerf. Back in the 1960s, the US government carried out research to build a solid communication system across computer networks.



During the mid-1980s, it is said the modern Internet came to life as it gained rapid growth as devices of institutional, personal and mobile computers were connected to it. Tim Berners Lee made a suggestion for an information management system in 1989 and he succeeded in doing so when he successfully communicated between a HTTP client and server through the Internet. WWW – Worldwide Web was created which is ranked to have the best technological advancement and lifestyle advancement to date. SER V ER SID E FA C TO R S


Websites have always been connected to a server which are the high-end specification computers that can handle the strain of million of users accessing the websites that are stored upon the server. With servers, they allow access to websites otherwise there would be no websites available.
The way this works is by a user connecting to the Internet and as they enter the address of a website, another connection is made between a server and the user which is how the Internet is used for users. The following factors will always have an affect upon the existence of websites:

 WEB SERVER CAPACITY
 EXECUTIONS TO BE PERFORMED
 NUMBER OF HITS
 BANDWIDTH
 FILE TYPES

W EB SER V ER C A PA C ITY


Web server capacity concerns the storage space and the speed behind a server. The amount of files that can be stored upon a server affects a website due to the fact that the larger the storage space available, the slower it will be for users to

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