E Commerce- Importance of Web Server

Today the performance of  a Web Server is a very important aspect related to Business.It has become a critical success of many corporations and organizations.

We can do this on Static parameter and dynamic parameter.Static Page mainly based small amount of CGI or common Gateway Interface scripts and more like simple websites having Static web pages.

To understand the difference between static and dynamic pages can check here

http://saxenablogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/static-and-dynamic-web-page.html

But same can't be applied to e-commerce based websites

So if we talk about the Web Server having a e- Commerce based Portal up and running 24/7 then it will be having a huge amount of data flow with multiple scripts running in parallel and linked to many database queries etc. e.g online shopping portal where you can search and it hits results after searching in database and this same search can be fired by multiple customer across the world


Latest surveys for e-commerce says we can do this based upon following points

1. Response Time
Time required for the site to load completely at different ISP speeds.

2 Security and certification
Remember if security is very important aspect and customer wants their transaction to be secure when dealing with Credit card information etc
Thus Implementation of a firewall at the server level is necessary.
SSL are mainly used for Security certificates etc.

3.Concurrent Connections
The number of users the server can handle at the same time.Technical term normally used today is THROUGHPUT.

4.Uptime
The length of time that a webserver can remain connected to the internet without requiring a restart.
Now a days we have servers which require a month for next time to be restarted.

5.Monitoring Tools
Here a third party tools can also be used for the same to monitor the website at regular intervals by monitoring HTTP requests,hardware failure FTP etc.


In order to design a web server with high performance and reliable web server for eCommerce applications the factors must be considered.