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18 Cards in this Set
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Web application servers
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Provide specific business functionality required for a Web site
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Scalability
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Ability of site to increase in size as demand warrants
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Vertically scale
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Increase processing power of individual components
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Horizontally scale
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Employ multiple computers to share workload
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Cookies
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Primary method to achieve personalization
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Dynamic page generation
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Contents stored in database and fetched when needed
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The Systems Development Life Cycle(SDLC)
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Methodology for understanding business objectives of a system and designing an appropriate solution
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5 major SDLC steps:
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1.Systems analysis/planning
2.Systems design 3.Building the system 4.Testing 5.Implementation |
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Outsourcing
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Hiring vendors to provide services involved in building site
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Hosting
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responsible for ensuring site is accessible 24/7, for monthly fee
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Co-location
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Firm purchases or leases Web server (with control over its operation), but server is located at vendor’s facility
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In-House
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Build your own requires team with diverse skill set; choice of software tools; both risks and possible benefits
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Accessibility rules
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Set of design objectives that ensure disabled users can affectively access site
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Privacy policy
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Set of public statements declaring how site will treat customers’ personal information that is gathered by site
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System architecture
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Arrangement of software, machinery, and tasks in an information system needed to achieve a specific functionality
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Apache
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*Leading Web server software (66% of market)
*Works with UNIX, Linux OSs |
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Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS)
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*Second major Web server software (16% of market)
*Windows-based |
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Merchant Server
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Provides basic functionality for sales
*Online catalog, shopping cart, credit card processing |
