CIS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Web Service, Web Server, Virtual Private Cloud
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At home you have lan that connect to service provider. Divides into several packets then goes to the cloud networks. Peering agreements: carriers give free exchange traffic amongst themselves. Net neutrality: all data is equal; some people use more bandwidth than each other though. Public ip address: identifies unique device on the internet. Private ip: identifies a device on a private network, usually lan. Benefit of using private ip: protects against direct attack. Domain name: unique name affiliated that is linked to public ip address. One domain name can have a lot of ip addresses. Url uniform resource locater: internet address protocol, such as http:// 2. web server tier: how the page looks, layout. 3. database tier: all information is in the database, like inventory. Service oriented architecture: all interaction among computing devices are defined as services in a formal standard way. Browser, load balancer, then goes to correct server, then database balancer.