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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
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 access the website. If a website is stored upon a considerably small storage space, it will cause problems such as crash and freeze for users who wish to browse the website. A large storage space is required to allow owners to be able to exploit its advantages so that they can upload as many multimedia files as they wish to.
The speed of the server can also affect the capacity of a web server. The amount of time it takes for a server to receive information in the form of data packets which will then result in data being sent back to the users to allow access to the website. With technological advancement made consistently, there are now cables such as Fibre Optic cables which servers can use to transmit information in and out which will allow websites to be loaded quicker.
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P ER FO R M ED
When loading up a website, there are many actions that need to be performed to be able to do so. These actions require perfect executions to be able to access a website. If there are factors that influence a website to load slow, the immediate response should be to check whether there are scripts, plugins, add-ons or any other implements that are not working correctly or are required.
Many websites nowadays use script as they are conducted using PHP, Java or other languages therefore scripts help the website to be able to carry out a variety of tasks from preloading files to allow the users to be able to instantly view the files. Plug-ins and add-ons are two similar concepts that involve servers to insist on specific software's and applications to be used, to allow the website to work in creative methods. Software’s such as Adobe Flash Player are used in accordance to allow videos to work on websites whilst file types such as GIF, Bitmap, JPEG, and PNG are used to allow images to be viewed in highest quality possible.
N U M B ER O F H ITS
A hit is the view that a website receives whenever an...
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