Unaffiliated web domain hosting service based on a common service architecture

• US 8,762,484 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newfold Digital, Inc. (Clearlake Capital Group LP)
• Original Assignee: The Endurance International Group, Inc. (Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ravichandran, Hari, Moseley, Mark, Lovell, Scott, Brock, Brian
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Tauqir
• Application Number:
  US13/007,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0243 Comparative campaigns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5048 Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5083 wherein the managed service relates to web hosting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A website hosting service provides a plurality of services, from a common service architecture, to each of a plurality of unrelated websites, the common service architecture being adapted to provide a different package of services to at least a plurality of unrelated websites.

Claims

1. A method of website hosting, comprising:

serving a plurality of website hosting services, at least two different website hosting services of the plurality of website hosting services are served from different service pools of servers, wherein each service pool of servers provides only one website hosting service and all servers of a service pool provide only the one website hosting service of the plurality of website hosting services;

adapting at least one of the plurality of website hosting services to meet a website service requirement;

combining the at least two website hosting services into at least one service package wherein at least one of the combined website hosting services has been adapted; and

serving a plurality of different service packages to at least a plurality of unrelated websites, a first service package of the plurality of different service packages is provided to at least one website that is unaffiliated with a plurality of related websites.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of website hosting services is adapted to meet a website service requirement of each of a plurality of unrelated websites.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of website hosting services is adapted differently for each of a plurality of different service packages.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of different service packages comprises a first package of services for a first website and a second package of services for a second website.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first website and second website are unrelated websites.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of website hosting services is comprised of at least one common service provided by a common service architecture comprising a service pool platform comprising a plurality of the service pools, a load balance facility for allocating service requests to the plurality of service pool servers, and a code library for facilitating adapting website hosting services.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the common service architecture comprises a cloud computing based server architecture.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the common service architecture comprises a grid computing based server architecture.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first service package of the plurality of different service packages is provided to a plurality of related websites.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of related websites share a common client website hosting subscriber.