Online trade platforms: Hosting, selling, or both?

Selling Platforms

Network goods and platform-enabled marketplaces are a dominant part of industry and entrepreneurship today. Firms selling these products task selling agents to recruit network participants. This creates a novel agency problem, distinct from one encountered with traditional goods because of externalities created by network effects. We analyze this managerial problem within a principal-agent fram...

Dynamic Resource Management in Internet Hosting Platforms

DYNAMIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN INTERNET HOSTING PLATFORMS

Online Recommender System for Radio Station Hosting

Dynamics of Online Scam Hosting Infrastructure

This paper studies the dynamics of scam hosting infrastructure, with an emphasis on the role of fast-flux service networks. By monitoring changes in DNS records of over 350 distinct spam-advertised domains collected from URLs in 115,000 spam emails received at a large spam sinkhole, we measure the rates and locations of remapping DNS records, and the rates at which “fresh” IP addresses are used...

Communication-aware CPU Management for Consolidated Virtualization-based Hosting Platforms

Recent advances in software and architectural support for server virtualization have created interest in using this technology in the design of consolidated hosting platforms. Since virtualization enables easier and faster application migration as well as secure co-location of antagonistic applications, higher degrees of server consolidation are likely to result in such virtualization-based hos...