Capacity Planning

The Internet Transactional Web Site

The term transactional, as it is used here, indicates a bidirectional flow of data, typically to and from a database. (It does not indicate e-commerce transactions.) Customers need to be able not only to look up information already stored at the site, but also to add new information of their own. Transactional sites tend to use Web applications that are more complex and extensive than those of marketing sites, and thus require careful development and testing.

See the following:

• Purposes
• Capacity Planning Issues
• Initial Model
• Growth Model
• Suggested Capacity Planning Methods

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