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Evolving Governmental Policies and Taxes
Depending on where you live, legislation relating to Internet-based businesses might be
nonexistent, in the pipeline, or immature.This situation is unlikely to last. Some business
models might be threatened, regulated, or eliminated by future legislation.Taxes might
be added.
You cannot avoid these issues.The only way to deal with them is to keep up to date
with what is happening and keep your site in line with the legislation.You might want
to consider joining any appropriate lobby groups as issues arise.
System Capacity Limits
One issue to bear in mind when designing your system is growth.You certainly hope
your system will get busier and busier.You should therefore design it in such a way that
it can scale to cope with demand.
For limited growth, you can increase capacity by simply buying faster hardware, but
there is a limit to how fast a computer you can buy. Is your software written so that after
you reach this point, you can separate parts of it to share the load on multiple systems?
Can your database handle multiple concurrent requests from different machines? Is your
database connection code written so that you can later change it to write to a MySQL
replication master and read from a variety of slaves?
Few systems cope with massive growth effortlessly, but if you design it with scalability
in mind, you should be able to identify and eliminate bottlenecks as your customer base
grows.
Choosing a Strategy
Some people believe that the Internet changes too fast to allow effective planning.We
would argue that this very changeability makes planning crucial. If you do not set goals
and decide on a strategy, you will be left reacting to changes as they occur rather than
being able to act in anticipation of change.
Now that you have examined some of the typical goals for a commercial website and
some of the main threats, we hope you have some strategies for your own.
Your strategy will need to identify a business model.The model is usually something
that has been shown to work elsewhere but is sometimes a new idea that you have faith
in.Will you adapt your existing business model to the Web, mimic an existing competitor,
or aggressively create a pioneering service?
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In the next chapter, we look specifically at security for e-commerce, providing an
overview of security terms, threats, and techniques.