Scalability in the Large

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Internet

site replica

reverse proxies

proxy caches

One way to achieve scalability in the large is to push the service out into the network, closer to the clients.

Wide-area caching and replication promise more available and responsive services.

Web cache vendors: Inktomi, Novell, CacheFlow, NetApp,
Distributed caches: NLANR Cache Infrastructure (Squid)
Replicated Web hosting providers: Akamai, Sandpiper

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