Abstract: A system and method are provided for detecting, measuring, and/or mitigating contentious multi-platform content. The method includes recording any contentious content in one or more online platforms tagged by a plurality of users, while the plurality of users are searching the one or more online platforms according to a specified criteria. The method also includes analyzing actions of the one or more online platforms to determine an extent of contentious content in the one or more online platforms tagged by the plurality of users. The method also includes generating a report indicating the extent of contentious content, for the one or more online platforms. In some implementations, the method also includes providing, to the plurality of users, an interface that specifies the criteria for identifying contentious content in the one or more online platforms.

Abstract: A method for operating a server cluster that includes N server nodes that service client requests. Each client request is directed to one of a plurality of sites hosted on the server cluster. Each site is identified by a domain name, and each server node is identified by an address on a network connecting the clients to the server nodes. The computational resources required to service the requests to each of the sites over a first time period are measured and used to group the sites into N groups. Each group is assigned to a corresponding one of the server nodes. The groups are chosen such that, for each pair of groups, the difference in the sum of the measured computational resources is within a first predetermined error value. Configuration information defining a correspondence between each of the sites and one or more of the server nodes assigned to the groups containing that site is then provided to a router accessible from the network.