Site Collection Group Management for Shared Hosting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprises face high expenses in establishing and maintaining their own information technology infrastructure for web hosting, and existing data center solutions often require dedicated servers for each subscriber, which can be costly and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A data center provides a site collection group management interface that allows subscribers to manage their websites and resources efficiently, using shared helper services tailored to specific business needs, without the need for dedicated servers, by hosting multiple websites within a single server and enabling custom helper services through a tiered service model.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If a data center provides a shared web hosting service that hosts websites of multiple subscribers on a single server, then cost efficiency is improved, but it becomes difficult to ensure data security and isolation between subscribers
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the shared hosting environment by creating separate site collections for each subscriber, with distinct management interfaces and permission structures. This allows multiple subscribers to share physical infrastructure while maintaining logical separation and security isolation through the hierarchical site collection architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary management layer that mediates between multiple subscribers and the shared server infrastructure. This layer provides centralized management capabilities while maintaining subscriber-specific isolation, acting as a buffer that enables cost-efficient sharing without compromising security.
2Reliability
If a data center provides dedicated servers for each subscriber, then data security and isolation are improved, but cost efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system makes the server infrastructure universal by designing it to host websites for multiple subscribers simultaneously. The shared server platform provides multi-functional capabilities, serving different subscribers with different requirements through the site collection architecture, thereby eliminating the need for dedicated servers while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple subscriber environments into a single shared hosting platform. By combining resources and infrastructure while maintaining logical separation through site collections, the system achieves cost efficiency without sacrificing the security and isolation that would normally require separate dedicated servers.
3Productivity
If multiple websites are hosted within a single server, then resource utilization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex shared hosting environment into manageable site collections, each representing a subscriber's website portfolio. This segmentation organizes the complexity hierarchically, allowing efficient resource utilization across multiple websites while presenting a simplified view to individual subscribers through their respective management interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a subscriber of a data center to manage a site collection group hosted by the data center. A site collection group is a set of site collections that belong to a single subscriber. A site collection is a collection of websites. A website is a collection of related resources. Each of the site collections is associated with an “owner”. As described herein, the data center presents management interfaces that enable owners of site collections to manage the site collections. In addition, the data center presents management interfaces that enable subscribers to manage architectural aspects of their site collection groups.