| A typical multiple-tier eCommerce architecture: |
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| In today's hosting server farms this architecture is reproduced for each hosted site: the first two tiers, and in some cases the third one too, of all customers sit physically on a single site and share the pipe connecting them to the internet:.
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| In an Océano farm, the division of machines in the front tiers (presentation and application) is somewhat relaxed: |
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In this way, the machines can be dynamically allocated to the site that needs them the most (according to load): |
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