Migrating a web hosting service via a virtual network from one architecture to another

• US 9,197,517 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2013
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAYA, TEJIS A
• Application Number:
  US14/069,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20140215033A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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

An automated tool for migrating a website hosting service from a first website hosting architecture to a second website hosting architecture, wherein a virtual network is used during migration to facilitate keeping the services available during the movement of IP addresses from one architecture to the other architecture.

Claims

1. A method of automatic website hosting service migration, comprising:

determining a plurality of IP addresses used by a first website hosting architecture for fulfilling website hosting requirements of at least one website via a plurality of website-specific hosting services, the plurality of website-specific hosting services to be migrated to a second website hosting architecture, the second website hosting architecture providing a plurality of common website hosting services to a plurality of unrelated websites, wherein the common website-specific hosting services are independent of website-specific hosting requirements;

configuring a virtual network that connects the first website hosting architecture with the second website hosting architecture to facilitate responding to network requests to access the plurality of website-specific hosting services at one or more of the plurality of IP addresses during migration; and

serving a website hosting service via the virtual network in response to at least one of the network requests from one of the first website hosting architecture and the second website hosting architecture based on a status of migration of the resources, wherein a website hosting service served from the second website hosting architecture is an adapted variation of one of the plurality of common website hosting services that corresponds to the requested website-specific hosting service of the first website hosting architecture, the adapted variation causing the one of the plurality of common website hosting services to meet the website hosting requirement of the at least one website.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the website hosting service is sourced from the second website hosting architecture when the status of migration indicates that the requested website hosting service has been migrated.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the website hosting service is sourced from the first website hosting architecture when the status of migration indicates that the requested website hosting service has not been migrated.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second website hosting architecture is a cloud computing architecture.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second website hosting architecture is a grid computing architecture.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture serves the plurality of website hosting services to a specific website.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises one of a grid and a cloud computing environment.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises a virtual computing environment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the adapted variation is adapted in response to the network request to meet the website hosting requirement of the at least one website that is fulfilled by the identified at least one of the determined plurality of website-specific hosting services.

10. A method of automatic website hosting service migration, comprising the steps of:

determining a plurality of website-specific hosting services provided by a first website-specific hosting architecture to fulfill website hosting requirements of at least one website;

analyzing the determined plurality of website hosting services to identify at least one of the determined plurality of website-specific hosting services that corresponds to a common website-specific hosting service of a second website hosting architecture that provides adapted common website hosting services to a plurality of unrelated websites, wherein the common website-specific hosting services are independent of website-specific hosting requirements;

configuring a virtual network that connects the first website hosting architecture with the second website hosting architecture to facilitate responding to a network request to access services provided to the at least one website during migration;

migrating servicing of the at least one website from the first website hosting architecture to the second website hosting architecture so that a migration status of the at least one website includes a migration status for each of the plurality of website-specific hosting services; and

in response to a network request for the identified at least one of the determined plurality of website-specific hosting services, serving one of the identified at least one of the determined plurality of website-specific hosting services from the first website hosting architecture and an adapted variation of the corresponding common website-specific hosting service from the second website hosting architecture via the virtual network based on a migration status of the at least one website, the adapted variation causing the one of the plurality of common website hosting services to meet the website hosting requirement of the at least one website.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the adapted variation of the corresponding common website hosting service is adapted in response to the network request to meet the website hosting requirement of the at least one website that is fulfilled by the identified at least one of the determined plurality of website hosting services.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first website hosting architecture serves the plurality of website hosting services to a specific website.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises one of a grid and a cloud computing environment.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second website hosting architecture comprises one of a grid and a cloud computing environment.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the first website hosting architecture comprises a virtual computing environment.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the adapted variation is adapted in response to the network request to meet the website hosting requirement of the at least one website that is fulfilled by the identified at least one of the determined plurality of website-specific hosting services.