TY  - CONF
ID  - www200929
UR  - http://www2009.eprints.org/29/
A1  - Al-Qudah, Zakaria
A1  - Alzoubi, Hussein A.
A1  - Allman, Mark
A1  - Rabinovich, Michael
A1  - Liberatore, Vincenzo
Y1  - 2009/04//
N2  - Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning ?xed 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.
TI  - Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform
SP  - 281
M2  - Madrid, Spain
AV  - public
EP  - 281
T2  - 18th International World Wide Web Conference
ER  -