document: The freshman handbook : a hint for the server placement of social networks There has been a recent unprecedented increase in the use of Online Social Networks ( OSNs ) to expand our social life , exchange information and share common interests . Many popular OSNs today attract hundreds of millions of users who share tremendous amount of data on it such as Facebook , Twitter , and Buzz . Given the huge business opportunities OSNs may bring , more and more new social applications has emerged on the Internet . For these newcomers in the social network business , one of the first key decisions to make is to where to deploy the computational resources to best accommodate future client requests . In this work , we aim at providing useful suggests to the new born social network providers ( freshman ) on the intelligent server placement , by exploring available public information from existing social network communities . In this work , we first propose three scalable server placement strategies for OSNs . Our solution can scalably select server locations among all the possible locations , at the same time reducing the cost for inter-user data sharing .
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