Part III: Web Replication
With Part III, we turn our attention to content replication on the Web. Replication refers to creating extra content copies on a system that is controlled by the provider of Web content. A replication platform seeks to improve Web access to a particular Web site or a selected group of Web sites no matter which clients access these sites. In this book, we only consider transparent replication, which refers to those replication techniques that require no user involvement or even awareness of whether or not a Web site utilizes replication.
There are several fundamental issues any replicated system faces.
Request distribution: How to transparently distribute requests for content among servers that hold replicas of that ...
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