Patent ID: 8150912

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: A) offering a user, via at least one customer interaction server computer, a website hosting service comprising: (1) hosting at least one website in a first datacenter located in a first geographic region; (2) hosting said at least one website in a second datacenter located in a second geographic region; or (3) hosting said at least one website in both said first datacenter and said second datacenter; B) if said user selects hosting said at least one website in both said first datacenter and said second datacenter, provisioning at least one hosting server computer in said first datacenter and at least one hosting server computer in said second datacenter to host said at least one website; C) hosting said at least one website on said at least one hosting server computer in said first datacenter and at said least one hosting server computer in said second datacenter; D) receiving, via at least one routing server computer, a request for a plurality of said at least one website's content; E) routing, by said at least one routing server computer, said request to a responding datacenter selected from the group consisting of said first datacenter and said second datacenter by determining whether said request will receive a faster response from said first datacenter or said second datacenter; and F) returning, by at least one hosting server computer in said responding datacenter, said plurality of said at least one website's content.