Using a proxy is helpful when the demands of serving a single website outgrow the capabilities of a single machine. Additionally, there are some web frameworks, like Seaside and Ruby On Rails’s Mongrel server, that deploy applications on framework-specific web servers. While these single-purpose servers provide powerful application services, they are not suitable for hosting entire applications. I
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