TY - JOUR
T1 - System support for web hosting services on server clusters
AU - Tseng, Chun Wei
AU - Yang, Chu Sing
N1 - Funding Information:
We currently maintain a Web server cluster supported by the research project (under Contract No. NSC89-2622-E-110-003) sponsored by two companies and the National Science Council of Taiwan. The server cluster consists of the following machines: four Pentium Pro machines (200 MHz CPU with 64 MB memory), six Pentium-2 machines (300 MHz CPU with 128 MB memory), and sixteen Pentium-4 machines (1400 MHz CPU with 512 MB memory). Some of the back-end servers run Windows NT with IIS, and the others run Linux with Apache. The reason for such a software configuration is that we want to show that our mechanism could operate with any kind of operating system and server software. We currently use a Pentium-2 machine (350 MHz CPU with 128 MB memory) running Linux to execute the request routing mechanism and approaches proposed in this paper.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - The Web hosting service is becoming increasingly important in which the service providers offer system resources to store and provide Web access to contents from individuals, institutions, and companies who lack resources or expertise to maintain a Web site. Web server cluster is a popular architecture used by the hosting service providers as a way to create scalable and highly available solutions. However, hosting a variety of contents from different customers on such a distributed server system faces new design and management problems and requires new solutions. This paper describes the research work we are pursuing for constructing a system to address the challenges faced by hosting Web content on a server farm environment. We also report performance data measured from a real hosting service.
AB - The Web hosting service is becoming increasingly important in which the service providers offer system resources to store and provide Web access to contents from individuals, institutions, and companies who lack resources or expertise to maintain a Web site. Web server cluster is a popular architecture used by the hosting service providers as a way to create scalable and highly available solutions. However, hosting a variety of contents from different customers on such a distributed server system faces new design and management problems and requires new solutions. This paper describes the research work we are pursuing for constructing a system to address the challenges faced by hosting Web content on a server farm environment. We also report performance data measured from a real hosting service.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2003.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2003.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33947301324
SN - 0045-7906
VL - 33
SP - 208
EP - 220
JO - Computers and Electrical Engineering
JF - Computers and Electrical Engineering
IS - 3
ER -