{"title":"GreenWeb: Hosting High-Load Websites Using Low-Power Servers","authors":"Brad Everman, Ziliang Zong","doi":"10.1109/IGCC.2018.8752138","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Today, there are millions of web servers hosting billions of websites. To ensure quality of service (QoS), it has become conventional wisdom that websites, especially high-load websites, must be deployed on high-end servers. In fact, most of these costly servers are energy-hungry and vastly underutilized, thereby wasting significant amounts of energy and dollars. This paper explores the viability of using low-power commodity servers to host high-load websites while still maintaining comparable QoS. We demonstrate that, with certain software optimization (e.g. caching and content delivery network - CDN) enabled, low-power servers are able to host high-load websites without degrading the quality of web services.","PeriodicalId":388554,"journal":{"name":"2018 Ninth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 Ninth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGCC.2018.8752138","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Today, there are millions of web servers hosting billions of websites. To ensure quality of service (QoS), it has become conventional wisdom that websites, especially high-load websites, must be deployed on high-end servers. In fact, most of these costly servers are energy-hungry and vastly underutilized, thereby wasting significant amounts of energy and dollars. This paper explores the viability of using low-power commodity servers to host high-load websites while still maintaining comparable QoS. We demonstrate that, with certain software optimization (e.g. caching and content delivery network - CDN) enabled, low-power servers are able to host high-load websites without degrading the quality of web services.