Your Company Web Server Hardware & Software

For this assignment you will look at the web server hardware and software needs for your proposed company. I am not looking for make, models and detailed specification but rather how may customers will be accessing the server, is there going to be online purchases and payments, etc. Write up a one and half page summary of the needs.

Some of the topics you should cover will include:

Will the company website be self-hosting or pay a service provider to host? The answer to this question could depend of company size, volume of transactions, etc.

Does the company already have equipment and staff in place were purchasing additional software might be the best direction?

What type of operating system, connection speed and user capacity are needed to support your proposal? For example, if your company were involved in online gaming the needs would be different from a company with an online catalog purchasing system.

What key elements will be the software need to support such as catalogs, shopping carts, and transaction processing capabilities? Will there be blogs, file transfers, etc?

What are the database needs such as for purchasing, inventory, customer information, etc.?

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A web server is a dedicated computer or other equipment that uses the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol to transfer web content to clients upon their requests (Gray, 2012). My proposed company will be an online store. I project that my company will have significant volumes of sales. These large volumes will result in a myriad of transactions on a daily basis. For these reasons, I will pay a service provider to host my business’ website………………

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