e-commerce server for internet-market

I am writing a term paper on the topic "theoretical build server for the Internet Market". I need help with this term paper. Can someone who had a deal with creating e-commerce site on server help me , calling your server configuration for the site of Internet market ( hardware and software specifications and server performance (web interactions per second, amount of Requests and response per second and other performance benchmarks specifications what you can say me)). I would be very grateful for any meaningful response)