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Many web hosting companies do not load balance their web servers. The reason is that current web server load balancing techniques are expensive. Website migration is a costeffective and simple load balancing solution for web hosting companies that host web sites whose load is small in comparison the capacity of a web server. The main objectives of website migration is to reduce the average latency and the variance in latency. The major costs, associated with website migration, are: interrupted service, increased load on the web servers and the web server cluster’s network, and redirection. A major difficultly with website migration, as with any web server load balancing scheme, is that load is inherently multi-dimensional, whereas good multi-dimensional load balancing algorithms are hard to find. Our preliminary experimental results show that website migration is a promising approach for load balancing of web servers hosting small websites.