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FLEX: Design and Management Strategy for Scalable Web Hosting Service

Cherkasova, 1999

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11465303205913251048
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Cherkasova L
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HP LABORATORIES TECHNICAL REPORT HPL

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Due to the explosive growth of the Web and an increasing demand on the servers, Web content hosting is an increasingly common practice. In Web content hosting, providers who have a large amount of resources (for example, bandwidth to the Internet, disks, processors …
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