Patent ID: 7502858

Claim:
A method for load balancing Web page content request traffic across a network of customer Web servers and Web cache servers, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of customer Web servers; wherein customer Web servers belonging to a customer_serve dynamic Web page content to requesting users; wherein said Web cache servers serve static Web page content directly to requesting users; performing load balancing among said customer Web servers for dynamic Web page content requests from requesting users; wherein said customer Web server load balancing step simultaneously performs load balancing across customer Web servers belonging to a plurality of customers; performing load balancing among said Web cache servers for static Web page content requests from requesting users; wherein a customer pays a fee to a service for use the plurality of Web cache servers and the load balancing among the Web servers belonging to the customer performed by said customer Web server load balancing step; and wherein said customer Web server load balancing step and said Web cache server load balancing step are performed on a common name server.