Popular Sites Like Google and Yahoo! Have Several Computers Assigned

question 80

Multiple Choice

Popular sites like Google and Yahoo! have several computers assigned to their host names because:

• A) they have operations in different countries.
• B) they are registered under several generic top-level domain names.
• C) of the different devices used to access these web sites.
• D) hoarding all information in one server is expensive.
• E) it ensures that the load of requests to their sites do not overwhelm a single computer.

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