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WHAT: Web Hosting Analysis Tool
Ludmila Cherkasova, Mohan DeSouza*
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road,Palo Alto, CA 94303
e mail: {cherkasova,mdesouza}@hpl.hp.com
1 Introduction
As the Web increasingly becomes a core element of business strategy, the task of hosting web content
has become mission critical. Few companies, however, have the resources, money and expertise to build
their web site entirely in house. For this reason, many businesses choose to outsource their Web hosting
to Internet Service Providers and some equipment vendors which, according to Forrester Research Inc.,
can slash costs by 80%.
Although the recent survey revealed over 1 million web servers on the Internet, the number of web sites
exceeds this number by several times. The illusion of more web sites existing than actual web servers is
created through the use of virtual servers (hosts).
The shared Web hosting service is based on this technique. The shared Web hosting market targets small
and medium size businesses. The most common purpose of a shared hosting web site is marketing (in
other words, it means that most of the documents are static). In this case, many different sites are hosted
on the…