《High_Performance_Web-Server_Systems》.pdf

High Performance Webserver Systems V Cardellini M Cola janni  Philip S Yu University of Rome Tor Vergata IBM TJ Watson Research Center Roma I Yorktown Heights NY fcardellini cola janni guniromait psyuusibmcom Abstract Popular Web sites cannot rely on a single p owerful server nor on indep endent mirroredservers to supp ort ever increasing request load Scalability and availability can b e provided by distributed Web server architectures that distribute client requests among the multiple servers in a usertransparent way In this pap er we will review the state of the art in distributed Webserver systems We will analyze the eciency and limitations of the various approaches and their tradeo Intro duction The explosive growth of trac on the World Wide Web is causing a rapid increase in the request rate to p opular Web sites These sites can suer from severe congestion esp ecially in conjunction with sp ecial events One approach to handle p opular Web sites is based on the replication of information across an indep endent mirroredserver architecture This solution has a numb er of disadvantages including the not user transparent architecture and the lack of control on the request distribution A more promising solution is to rely on a distributed architecture that can route incoming requests among several server no des in a usertransparent way This approach can p otentially improve throughput p erformance and provide Webserver systems with high scalability and availability However a numb er of challenges must b e addressed to make