creators_name: Al-Qudah, Zakaria creators_name: Alzoubi, Hussein A. creators_name: Allman, Mark creators_name: Rabinovich, Michael creators_name: Liberatore, Vincenzo type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:09:05 lastmod: 2009-04-22 02:58:07 metadata_visibility: show title: Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform ispublished: pub full_text_status: public pres_type: paper abstract: 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 pagerange: 281-281 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: 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. document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/1/p281.pdf document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/29/2/WWW09-idle-apps.ppt