Web Server Software Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Daniel A. Menasce

  • Affiliations:
  • George Mason University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Web site scalability depends on several things, including workload characteristics, security mechanisms, and Web cluster architectures. Another important item that can affect a site's performance and scalability is the Web server software architecture. This column provides a classification of Web server architectures, offers a quantitative analysis of some possible software architectural options, and discusses the importance of software contention on overall response time.