Patent ID: 8108347

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) identifying changes, by a content distributor, in a master source file set on a master computer of a destination file system on one or more hosts, the destination file system for access by a respective web server in each of the hosts; the identifying step comprising the steps of: inspecting a current version of the master source file set, and comparing the current version to a previous version of the master source file set on the master computer; (b) storing the identified changes, by the content distributor, in a first manifest, wherein the first manifest identifies at least one changed file and at least one change made to the at least one file; (c) transmitting the first manifest and a copy of the changed file of the master source file set, by the content distributor, to a respective agent at each respective host in communication with a respective one of the web servers running in the same host, thereby notifying each of the web servers that the master source file set had changed, the agents having access to the destination file systems at the corresponding hosts; (d) waiting until a predetermined non-zero number of the agents determine that their respective web servers are able to receive the identified changes before transmitting the identified changes to the agents; and (e) receiving, a response from at least one of the agents after step (d) indicating that the destination file system installed the identified changes.