The vast majority of business and organizational websites are hosted by Internet hosting services, vendors who offer their clients rented space on their computers serving up Internet sites. There is a huge range of service options: some are free, most cost $20-$100 per month, and others can cost thousands of dollars monthly. Some businesses even host their websites by themselves, plugging their own servers directly into the Internet. First, Understand the Wide Range of Option
Use this topic to explain how you will accomplish your Web goals with your back-end technology. The back end is the place to explain how you will handle the dynamic parts of the site--a newsletter, administration page, registration database, contact page, or more complicated Web applications. Your back end interfaces with your UI and makes your website work.
Your back-end infrastructure may be fully supported by the Web hosting provider that you choose, but you may be hiring Web engineers to actually build functionality into your website, and create Web applications that run your front end. If your website needs to simply display information, and help legitimize your services to your clientele, your back end will probably be fairly simple. But if you are building out a full service hybrid site chances are your back end will be quite complex, and will need to be scalable, flexible, and easy to build on. This is the time to explain your plans for using different programming languages and HTML design tools, (FrontPage, DREAMWEAVER, ColdFusion, ASP, PERL, or C++).
If you haven't considered what database to use you should think about it here. Depending on how quickly your content site will scale, you can begin with low-end databases that are included in your hosting package. But think about how easy or hard it will be to transfer all of your information into an Oracle database or Sun SQL(structured query language)Server database once your website content gets going.
The first step of database interaction is often with a program like Microsoft Access. But if your site traffic is already well-established, or you are projecting heavy traffic soon after launching, you may need to use a Web-oriented, multi-threaded database. This could be Oracle, or SQL Server, or a number of others. Explain your plans for this here.
This is also the place to explain your specific implementation plans with it--if security is an issue, how will it be dealt with. You may need to get a digital certificate to enable an https:// secure connection to your domain name. If you are taking orders online you may consider connecting with Cybercash or another credit card vendor to get a real-time credit card authentication process. There are many different vendors and solutions for your e-commerce back end. Make sure you do your homework and find out the best solution for you.
