title: Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform creator: Al-Qudah, Zakaria creator: Alzoubi, Hussein A. creator: Allman, Mark creator: Rabinovich, Michael creator: Liberatore, Vincenzo description: Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each customer, dynamic hosting maintains a variable number of application instances to satisfy current demand. While existing research in this area has mostly focused on the algorithms that decide on the number and location of application instances, we address the problem of efficient enactment of these decisions once they are made. We propose a new approach to application placement and experimentally show that it dramatically reduces the cost of application placement, which in turn improves the end-to-end agility of the hosting platform in reacting to demand changes. date: 2009-04 type: Conference or Workshop Item type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/1/p281.pdf format: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/2/WWW09-idle-apps.ppt identifier: Al-Qudah, Zakaria and Alzoubi, Hussein A. and Allman, Mark and Rabinovich, Michael and Liberatore, Vincenzo (2009) Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain. relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/