Unaffiliated web domain hosting service based on shared data structure

• US 8,825,746 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2011
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• 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:
  US13/009,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203
• 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 to each of a plurality of unrelated websites, wherein when any one of the plurality of services is configured to be deployed to serve any one of the plurality of unrelated websites, the deployed service extracts data from a shared data structure that maintains data for at least a plurality of the 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 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;

deploying any of the plurality of website hosting services to meet website service requirements of a plurality of unrelated websites; and

accessing, with at least one deployed website hosting service, data from a shared data structure that maintains data for at least a plurality of the unrelated websites, the shared data structure includes a virtual file system;

wherein the shared data structure maintains data that facilitates configuring any one of the plurality of website hosting services to be deployed to serve any one of the plurality of unrelated websites; and

wherein the shared data structure is accessible to a plurality of servers configured into service pools for at least one of configuring and deploying any one or more of the plurality of website hosting services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the shared data structure is configured in a distributed database.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the shared data structure includes data security features to ensure secure separation of data for at least a plurality of the unrelated websites.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a web hosting architecture for serving the plurality of website hosting services comprises a cloud computing based server architecture.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a web hosting architecture for serving the plurality of website hosting services comprises a grid computing based server architecture.