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System Design: Website Flow

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Explain the working of a website.

Describe the complete request lifecycle from a user entering a URL through DNS, content delivery, application services, data access, response rendering, and subsequent interactions. Include how an ML-enabled website could retrieve, rank, and serve personalized content. Discuss online versus batch processing, latency, reliability, security, monitoring, and common failure modes.