Unaffiliated web domain hosting service based on common service pools architecture

• US 8,819,207 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): Yohannes, Tesfay
• Application Number:
  US13/009,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/223, 709/228, 709/204, 705/2, 705/37
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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 being adapted to provide services that are adapted to be combined into different packages to be delivered to at least a plurality of the unaffiliated websites.

Claims

1. A method of website hosting, comprising:

serving a plurality of website hosting services from a plurality of service pools, at least two different website hosting services of the plurality of website hosting services served from different service pools of servers, wherein each service pool of servers provide 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 or unaffiliated websites, wherein at least two websites of the plurality of unrelated or unaffiliated websites are owned by distinct website hosting clients; and

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 or unaffiliated websites.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising 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.

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

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