Scalable Web Server CIusterina Tech noloa ies

The exponential growth of the Internet, cou led with the increasing populari of dynamically generated content on the WorlJWide Web, has created the nee2 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. he 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. The only solution for scaling server capacity in the past has been to completely replace the old server with a new one