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Static Web sites

A static Web site is one in which the content viewed by users accessing the site using a Web browser is determined only by the contents of the file system on the Web server machine. Because the user's experience is determined only by the content of these files and not by any action of the user or any business logic running on the server machine, the site is described as static.

In most cases, the communication protocol used for interacting with static Web sites is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

In the context of our sample scenario, the bank might want to publish a static Web site in order to inform customers of bank services, such as branch locations and opening hours, and to inform potential customers of services provided by the bank, such as account interest rates. This kind of information can safely be provided statically, because it is the same for all visitors to the site and it changes infrequently.

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