Patent ID: 7624168
Filing Date: 2009-11-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A scalable hosting platform, comprising: a main server layer including one or more servers wherein a server is designated to process a selected request to a selected host from a client; and, an auxiliary server layer removably coupled to and in communication with the main server layer, the auxiliary server layer being independently unavailable to the client and processing requests including the selected request upon redirection from the main server layer; wherein subsequent to receipt of the selected request at the designated server, the main server layer determines whether the designated server is overloaded and whether usage consumption assigned to the selected host is within threshold usage consumption, and the main server layer redirects the selected request upon determination that the designated server is overloaded where the selected request redirected from the main server layer is modified to associate with a different class when the usage consumption is beyond the threshold usage consumption; wherein upon processing the selected request redirected from the main server layer, the auxiliary server layer sends a response to the selected request.