Chapter 4. Server Hardware
If only foresight were as good as our hindsight! | ||
| --Anonymous | ||
Behind the friendly face of many websites is a sophisticated system of servers, hardware and software. Servers are the backbone of any good website. A server is a computer on “steroids” with a very fast permanent connection to the Internet and subsystems that protect against power outages, hackers, and system crashes. (The combination of hardware, operating system, and server software constitute a “server.”)
The raw performance of web servers, application servers, HTTP servers, and database servers is the key to customer satisfaction and future scalability. Slow response times are frustrating to customers and can impact the flow of data through the transaction-processing ...
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