Unaffiliated web domain hosting service based on service pools with flexible resource

• US 8,819,121 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2011
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• 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:
  US13/009,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179147A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/205
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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 architecture provides a plurality of services, from a plurality of service pools, to each of a plurality of unaffiliated websites, each of the plurality of service pools is adapted to contribute services to distinct service packages for at least a plurality of unaffiliated websites, each of the plurality of service pools is distributed across a plurality of servers, at least a portion of the servers being adapted to provide an overlapping service set in order to facilitate flexible resources from each of the plurality of service pools.

Claims

1. A method of website hosting, comprising:

serving a plurality of website hosting services from a plurality of service pools of servers, wherein 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 a website hosting service from at least two of the plurality of service pools to meet website service requirements of a plurality of unrelated websites;

configuring a server to serve website hosting services from the plurality of service pools of servers;

combining the adapted website hosting service from the at least two of the plurality of service pools to provide a plurality of different service packages for the plurality of unrelated websites the server configured to support a plurality of virtual servers and wherein each virtual server provides services of one of the plurality of service pools, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of virtual servers provide services from two or more of the plurality of services pools.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of service pools comprises a cloud computing based server architecture.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of service pools comprises a grid computing based server architecture.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of service pools comprises a virtual server based architecture.

5. A method of website hosting, comprising:

serving a plurality of website hosting services from a plurality of service pools, wherein each service pool serves one website hosting service by providing a plurality of servers configurable to serve the one website hosting service;

determining a demand for server resources for at least one of the plurality of service pools;

deploying a server from the plurality of servers to serve the one website hosting service served by the at least one of the plurality of service pools based on the server demand for the at least one of the plurality of service pools; and

combining the website hosting service from the at least two of the plurality of service pools to provide a plurality of different service packages for the plurality of unrelated websites, the server configured to support a plurality of virtual servers and wherein each virtual server provides services of one of the plurality of service pools, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of virtual servers provide services from two or more of the plurality of services pools.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a service pool comprises a plurality of servers each configured to serve the same website hosting service.

7. The method of claim 5, further including adapting a website hosting service from at least two of the plurality of service pools to meet website service requirements of a plurality of unrelated websites.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of servers comprises a cloud computing based server architecture.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of servers comprises a grid computing based server architecture.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of servers comprises a virtual server based architecture.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein deploying a server includes taking a server that is currently configured to serve a first service and configuring the server to serve a second service.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein deploying a server includes reconfiguring a server associated with a first service pool to serve a service from a second service pool.