Migrating a web hosting service between a one box per client architecture and a grid computing architecture

US20110179137A1Inactive Publication Date: 2011-07-21ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
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Publication Date
2011-07-21
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An automated tool for migrating a website hosting service from a first website hosting architecture to a second website hosting architecture, the first architecture comprising a server architecture that serves the services necessary for a specific website from a single machine and the second web hosting architecture comprising a server architecture that serves a plurality of common services from a plurality of machines to a plurality of unaffiliated websites using a grid computing architecture.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 007,157 filed Jan. 14, 2011 which is incorporated by reference in its entirety and which claims the benefit of the following provisional applications, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety: U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 295,506 filed Jan. 15, 2010; U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 295,528 filed Jan. 15, 2010; U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 303,281 filed Feb. 10, 2010; U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 345,568 filed May 17, 2010; and U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 376,743 filed Aug. 25, 2010.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] 1. Field

[0003] The inventive methods and systems described herein generally relate to internet web hosting and particularly relate to web hosting based on a service pool-based architecture.

[0004] 2. Description of the Related Art

[0005] Web hosts or web hosting systems are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivit...

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[0109]FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of a common service architecture 100 for providing web hosting and related services to a plurality of clients. The common service architecture 100 may provide web hosting services to the plurality of unrelated / unaffiliated clients, such as a client 101 through a plurality of servers (e.g. web servers) that may be logically grouped into service pools based on common services that may be offered by the architecture. Exemplary service pools depicted in FIG. 1, including service pool 102, service pool 104 and service pool 108 may be supported by a service pool platform 110 that may include a plurality of web servers 103. The web servers 103 may have access to content and other website hosting data related to the hosting clients and hosted websites through a shared storage 106. The clients 101 and web hosting agents 118 may access the shared storage 106 and the common services through an Operational Support System 114 (OSS 114) that may provide funct...