Simple Food Delivery Website

Student Number: 35412901

Project Description

This project's goal is to create a basic online booking and meal delivery system that is hosted on Amazon EC2. This project aims to illustrate the fundamental ideas of web hosting, cloud computing, and public IP address-based online service accessibility (Mell & Grance, 2011). Through a form interface, users may place a basic booking or order request, examine a list of available food products, and verify prices. The method is intended for small food enterprises, such takeaway eateries, that wish to enhance consumer convenience during busy times. Consumers can quickly peruse menu items and enter their order details, such as name, contact details, and delivery address. Despite being a simple version, this illustrates how digital solutions may enhance customer satisfaction and service effectiveness. The website is hosted on an Amazon EC2 virtual server, which offers more flexibility, scalability, and affordable deployment than conventional hosting techniques (Amazon Web Services, 2023). The HTML content is served via the Apache web server, enabling online access to the website (The Apache Software Foundation, 2023). Additionally, this project showcases practical abilities like setting up a web server, starting a cloud instance, specifying security settings, and launching a live website. These abilities are necessary for cloud-based system development and contemporary IT positions.

License Rationale

The MIT License, a straightforward and permissive open-source license, is used in this project. There are little limits on how users can use, alter, and share the project. The original copyright notice is the only prerequisite. The MIT License was selected because it promotes education, cooperation, and sharing without complicated legal restrictions. It is appropriate for academic assignments when the primary objective is to exhibit practical skills and knowledge rather than limit usage.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Pema Dorji

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files to deal in the software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies.

References

Mell, P., & Grance, T. (2011). The NIST definition of cloud computing. National Institute of Standards and Technology. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-145

Amazon Web Services. (2023). What is cloud computing? https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/

The Apache Software Foundation. (2023). Apache HTTP Server documentation. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/