ALLOCATING AND ACCESSING HOSTING SERVER RESOURCES VIA CONTINUOUS RESOURCE AVAILABILITY UPDATES

• US 20150304243A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Watt, William R. II, Jasperson, Harry Jr., Reynolds, Daymion Tad
• Granted Patent: US 9,660,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/76 using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation requested by the user or requested by the network in response to changing network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/808 User-type aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for dynamically allocating and accessing hosting server resources to users of hosting services. The system may include one or more servers that provide multiple levels of access to the hosting server resources, and an administration server configured with one or more migration paths that allow the user to migrate the account between two levels while the account remains accessible to all entities authorized to access the account. The hosting server resources may be divided according to virtual partitions that are resizable by the administration server. The system may include a migration interface stored on and accessible to the user from the administration server. The migration interface provides the user with options to migrate the account between the levels of access. The system may include an application programming interface that provides access to the administration server for changing the account'"'"'s level of access.

Claims

1. A method for allocating and controlling resources, comprising:

providing, by a hosting provider, a plurality of levels of partitioned resource access, each level comprising one or more partitions, on one or more hosting servers, of a predetermined amount of hosting server resources, the predetermined amount of hosting server resources increasing from a lowest of the levels to a highest of the levels; and

providing, by the hosting provider to a user having one or more accounts in one or more of the partitions on a current level of the levels of partitioned resource access, one or more migration paths from the current level to each of the levels higher than the current level and to each of the levels lower than the current level, each of the migration paths facilitating migration of one or more of the accounts from the current level to another of the levels.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the migration paths further facilitates migration of one or more of the accounts from the current level to another of the levels while the accounts each remain accessible to all entities authorized to access the accounts.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the hosting resources comprise storage space, physical memory, and network bandwidth.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the hosting resources further comprise a number of accessible CPUs.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein one or more of the migration paths facilitates instant migration between two of the levels.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the partitions of one or more of the levels are virtual partitions.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the migration path between each of the levels comprising virtual partitions comprises increasing, if the migration path is from a lower of the levels to a higher of the levels, or decreasing, if the migration path is from a higher of the levels to a lower of the levels, the amount of hosting server resources available to the virtual partition within which the account being migrated resides.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein one or more of the levels comprise a single partition having all of the hosting server resources.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the migration path from one of the levels comprising virtual partitions to one of the levels comprising a single partition comprises copying the account being migrated from a first of the hosting servers on which the account resides to a second of the hosting servers comprising the single partition.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, by the hosting provider to the user, a unified control panel accessible at any level of partitioned resource access on which the user has one or more of the accounts.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, by the hosting provider, a plurality of shared resource platforms each comprising one or more of the levels of partitioned resource access.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the shared resource platforms comprise:

a shared platform; and

a virtual private server (VPS) platform.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the levels of partitioned resource access within the shared hosting platform comprise:

a higher density level comprising partitions for a first number of hosted users; and

a lower density level comprising partitions for a second number of hosted users, the second number being lower than the first number, and the partitions of the lower density level having more hosting server resources than the partitions of the higher density level.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing, by the hosting provider, one or more dedicated platforms, each dedicated platform having access to all of the hosting server resources of one or more of the hosting servers.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing, by the hosting provider to the user, a unified control panel usable to control the user'"'"'s accounts on any of the shared resource platforms or on any of the dedicated platforms.

16. A method, comprising:

providing, by a hosting provider to a user, an account on one or more hosting servers;

providing, by the hosting provider, a plurality of levels of resource access, each level comprising access to a predetermined amount of server resources of one or more of the hosting servers, the predetermined amount of hosting server resources increasing from a lowest of the levels to a highest of the levels, the account residing on a current level of the levels of resource access; and

providing, by the hosting provider to the user, one or more migration paths from the current level to each of the levels higher than the current level and to each of the levels lower than the current level, each of the migration paths facilitating movement of one or more of the accounts from the current level to another of the levels.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising migrating, by the hosting provider, the account from the current level to a level above the current level without interrupting access to the account by any authorized entity.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein migrating the account comprises increasing the predetermined amount of server resources accessible by the account.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein migrating the account further comprises retaining the account on the hosting server on which the account resided at the current level.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein migrating the account comprises copying the account from the hosting server on which the account resides at the current level to another of the hosting servers.