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What is the rationale behind entering email twice for registration? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: What is the purpose of “re-type your email” field? [closed] (3 answers) Closed 10 years ago. Many web sites ask users to enter their email address twice, sometimes taking the trouble to disable copy-pasting. What is the logic behind this? Is this e.g. a security measure? web-applications security ui […]

Reasons NOT to use JSF [closed]

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How do CDNs protect failover sites from DDoS attacks?

I’m in the design process for a Java web app that I will probably end up deploying to Google App Engine (GAE). The nice thing about GAE is that I really don’t have to worry about fortifying my app from the dreaded DDoS attack – I just specify a “billing ceiling”, and if my traffic peaks up to this ceiling (DDoS or otherwise), GAE will just shut my app down. In other words, GAE will essentially scale to any amount until you simply can’t afford to keep the app running any longer.

Implementing cache system in Java Web Application [closed]

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