Scalable Web Server Clustering Technologies

Authors

Trevor Schroeder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-2000

Comments

Published in IEEE Network May/June 2000. Copyright 2000 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

The exponential growth of the Internet, coupled with the increasing popularity of dynamically generated content on the World Wide Web, has created the need for more and faster Web servers capable of serving the over 100 million Internet users. Server clustering has emerged as a promising technique to build scalable Web servers. In this article we examine the seminal work, early products, and a sample of contemporary commercial offerings in the field of transparent Web server clustering. We broadly classify transparent server clustering into three categories.